If rates were raised high enough to restrain mortgage lending, they could also jeopardise the broader economy, especially since household and corporate debt together add up to as much as 200% of GDP.

如果利率提到足够高去遏制申请抵押贷款，他们也可以危害更大范围的经济，特别是自从家庭和法人的债务加起来总计达到了GDP的200%以来。

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Without any attempt to check or restrain it, society would soon collapse since minds would be overflowing with its tyrannical influence.

不设法去检查或约束它，社会便很快的堕落，因为心灵将被它暴虐的感染力所泛滥。

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The Constitution reflects a hostility to this idea because it tends to restrain trade, Stevens writes, and nothing Congress has done since to define patent law can be seen as encouraging government-sanctioned monopolies on processes alone.

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If rates were raised high enough to restrain mortgage lending, they could also jeopardise the broader economy, especially since household and corporate debt together add up to as much as 200% of GDP.

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Most of its deficit reduction has come from higher revenues, but the government has tried to restrain expenditure: federal spending has risen by around 1.5% a year since 2004.

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