简短的回答是，由于七月份通过的国会法案没能让这两家公司从金融市场上筹到急需的资金。

The short answer is that legislation Congress passed in July failed to reassure financial markets enough to position the two companies to raise needed capital on their own.

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使加拿大成为一个国家的新法案是一项叫做“1867年英属北美法案”的英国国会法案。

The new legislation that created Canada was a British act of Parliament called "The British North America Acts of 1867".

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1727年，乔治·弗里德里希·韩德尔之名响彻伦敦，同年他改入英籍（得益于一项国会法案的通过）。

By 1727 Handel was so well entrenched in London that, as George Frideric Handel, he became a naturalised British citizen (which required an act of Parliament).

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SIPC was set up by an act of Congress.

证券投资者保护公司依国会法案设立

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Wal-Mart, after the 1960 Act of Congress, would say, hey we're a real estate investment trust, we own real estate--all these stores -but that's not what the intent of this bill was.

国会通过这部法案后,沃尔玛说我也是房地产投资信托基金,我也持有房地产,所有店铺都是房地产,但这并不是这部法案的本意

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A thousand economists, from leading universities across the country sign a public appeal to congressman and president, not to pass this bill, that it would not do what they said it would do, it would not reduce unemployment, it would in fact lead to retaliation it would make it harder for Americans to sell goods to other countries.

但有数千位经济学家，来自于全国各大院校,向国会和总统公开发出呼吁，不要通过限制进口法案，法案不会奏效，法案不会减少失业，事实上会招致报复,会让美国更难,同别国做交易。

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