I could sue you.

我可以起诉你。

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They can stall you for a year. When you're trying to sell the house, they hire lawyers and sue you, and you've got to hire lawyers.

他们能拖延你整整一年的时间。当你准备卖掉房子，他们会请律师起诉你，然后你也不得不请律师。

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"I want to sue my parents for the rights to my own body." "Would you repeat that please?"

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They can stall you for a year; you're trying to sell the house, they hire lawyers and sue you and you've got to hire lawyers.

能拖延你整整一年的时间,当你准备卖掉房子,他们会请律师起诉你,然后你也不得不请律师

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Otherwise, if you don't buy all the debt, you still have a problem because those debtors can go after you because they are-- they're not shareholders but they have rights and they could come in and say, we don't like what you're doing; we're going to sue you because we think that you're doing something contrary to our interest as debtors.

不然,如果你没接下全部债务,就不能安枕无忧,因为这些债务人会跟着你,他们不是股东,但他们有权利,他们会跳出来说,我们不喜欢你的做法,我们要起诉你,因为你的做法违背了我们债权人的利益

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