When your elderly relative needs to enter some sort of long-term care facility—a moment few parents or children approach without fear—what you would like is to have everything made clear.

当你年长的亲戚需要进入某种长期的护理机构时——这时父母或子女都害怕处理这个问题——你要做的是弄清楚所有事情。

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I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure.

我知道我有驾驭语言的才能和直面令人不快的现实的能力。这一切似乎造就了一个私人的天地，在此天地中我能挽回我在日常生活中的不得意。

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Perhaps mindful that it could do without more bad publicity of the “vampire squid” sort, it renegotiated the terms of a loan facility that would have triggered a $1 billion payment if CIT went bust.

或许人们能注意到，在没有更多的诸如“吸血鬼鱿鱼”这样的负面宣传的情况下，Goldman Sachs是可以做成功的。 Goldman Sachs重新商议了一项贷款安排，如果CIT破产了，这项新的贷款安排将引发10亿美元的付款条件。

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That could enable it to obtain some sort of credit facility or additional capital.

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