Many Banks have argued that this is unfair, as those same assets will recover their value in the long term, and marking them down has, they claim, contributed to the current crisis of confidence.

很多银行争辩说这样不公平，因为同样的资产过一段时间以后会恢复其价值，他们声称降低这些资产的价值能为当前的信心危机做出贡献。

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[In one experiment, researchers] found that twice as many mall shoppers who had just ridden an up escalator contributed to the Salvation Army than shoppers who had just ridden the down escalator.

“研究人员在一次实验中发现，商场购物者中，乘扶梯而上的人对“救世军”进行的捐助，是那些乘扶梯而下的人的两倍。

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This cut down on costs (resulting in a competitively low price for the consumer), and it also contributed to faster service.

成本被节约下来(给消费者提供了一个透明的低价)，也让服务更加快捷。

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Education committee chairman, Mervyn Storey of the DUP, asked if the Department of Education's policies had contributed to the slow down "as figures were nearly better before their introduction".

BBC: Education Committee

As Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta argued in a paper, political instability and a divided parliament - with the ruling coalition often a minority in the upper house - contributed to the slowing down of output.

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For what it's worth, the gossip in bank boardrooms is that Mr Varley is so miffed at the apparent implosion of his assiduous efforts to agree a deal with ministers (which went by the moniker of Project Merlin) that it contributed to his decision last week to step down as chief executive a few weeks earlier than originally announced.

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