If walking past office was attempt to demonstrate presence of skirt can only say that it has failed parlously — Cleave.

如果故意走过我的办公室是要证明你穿了裙子，那你完全失败了。

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The oddity is that most banks already hold considerably more than the new minimum requirement - but the reason they already pass this threshold is because we continue to live in strange and perilous times, with many Western economies parlously weak and the financial system still stressed.

BBC: Banks agree minimum liquidity rules