Some economists blame a lack of oversight of the subprime mortgage industry for fueling the global financial meltdown that followed.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

The subprime mortgage market was bringing people into the mortgage market who in prior decades would not have been involved-- would not have had any mortgage.

次贷抵押信贷市场,把十多年前那些,不能获得抵押贷款的人,带进了抵押信贷市场

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We did have a large,short position in subprime mortgage-backed securities, which has paid off enormously for the University and really helped protect assets in the past nine months or a year.

我们确实曾持有很多,次级抵押担保证券的空头,它们为耶鲁赚了不少钱,并且在过去的9个月或1年间,为资产保值发挥了实在的作用

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Subprime refers to mortgages, which is not the subject of today's lecture, but a subprime mortgage is a mortgage issued to a borrower who is not considered prime--not a good risk.

次贷指的是次级抵押贷款,这不属于今天的讨论范围之内,次级抵押贷款是发放给特殊借款人的,他们不是优质客户,也就是说风险较大

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These mortgages were given out to people that couldn't afford them and today you have what you call subprime mortgages--subprime paper They issued against this paper stuff called mortgage-backed security. They securitized them and these things are all floating around now.

我们发放这些抵押贷款给那些买不起房子的人,所以现在你们看到了一种你们叫做,次级抵押贷款的金融工具--次贷票据,他们把这种票据叫做,有抵押证券，他们把有抵押证券证券化,这些证券现在在市场上被多次交易，广为流通。

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The subprime crisis is happening today because home prices are falling and with falling home prices more subprime borrowers are failing to pay their mortgage.

次贷危机之所以会发生,时因为房屋的价格在下降,随着房屋价格的下降更多的次贷借款人,将会无法支付他们的贷款

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