So there was bigger meal. There was a girlfriend involved, sometimes invited over to our house as well for the meal, and part of the family, and cards back and forth.

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It's not considered good form to say, I think we're about to have a crisis of confidence and the whole house of cards is going to collapse.

说我认为我们即将有个信心危机，或者所有计划都将破灭,是不明智的。

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The Fed is worried about a collapsing house of cards.

美联储担忧的是,一个失败的不切实际无法实现的计划。

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In the Savings and Loan crisis it was a certain segment of the banking community--the S&L's that seemed to be in trouble but it didn't seem to be then a house of cards that could spread around the country and around the world.

在储贷危机中，只是银行机构中的,一个特定部分-储蓄和存款,陷入了困境,但是这似乎不是一个,能够延伸至整个国家,和整个世界的不切实际的无法实现的计划。

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