After the personal-savings rate dipped to zero in 2005, the shock of the economic crisis last year prompted people to snap shut their wallets.

在2005年个人储蓄率降至零之后，去年经济危机的冲击促使人们迅速捂紧钱包。

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While the shock of the crisis has yet to end, new risks have emerged.

这次危机带来的打击还没有结束，新的危机已经来临。

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There is an escape clause to avoid penalties if Europe faces a general shock such as the financial crisis.

如果欧洲面临着像金融危机这样的普遍性打击，那他们就有了逃避惩罚的理由。

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Mr Berlusconi has been absent from the airwaves for four days because he is dealing with a crisis in his Fininvest business empire (elderly media mogul struggles with corporate crisis, shock).

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There is an escape clause to avoid penalties if Europe faces a general shock such as the financial crisis.

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Professor Ernst said when people are diagnosed with cancer they are often in shock and have a sense of crisis.

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