The government has lent millions of dollars to debt-ridden banks in contravention of local banking laws.

政府把数百万美元借给了债台高筑的银行，违反了地方银行业法律。

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Britain was everything a country should not be in a credit crunch: debt-ridden, reliant on foreign savings, chock-full of Banks and estate agents, and short of firms that made tangible stuff.

英国应该是最不可能遭受信贷紧缩的国家。而银根紧缩使得各国债台高筑，依赖外国储蓄，国内充斥着银行和房产机构，但缺乏拥有实质性价值的公司。

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The debt-ridden country is spiraling into a deepening financial crisis and may have to limit the amount of cash people can withdraw from its banks.

负债累累的希腊金融危机不断加剧，可能会设置银行取款限额。

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The region's debt-ridden banks and companies face takeover by cash-rich North American and European multinationals.

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If it seems more stable today than Indonesia or South Korea, that is because it has yet to push through the tough reforms to its debt-ridden banks and moribund state enterprises that are needed to ensure continuing rapid growth.

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These are provided by banks desperate to prevent debt-ridden firms from closing lest they drag the banks down too.

ECONOMIST: Too many South Koreans are reluctant to change their ways