If Athens were to sell that gold, the Greek state would theoretically be able to meet at least part of the debt payments due soon without any outside help.

如果雅典方面能够卖掉这些黄金，希腊理论上至少能够满足部分最近快要到期的国债的偿还额，而不需要任何外界的帮助。

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Its economy is sickly. Its debt, due to surpass 160% of GDP in the months to come, is unsustainable.

它的经济十分的虚弱，它的债务是无法持续的，因为在未来的几个月里将超过其GDP的160%。

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They are seeing downgrades on their debt due even as they are agreeing to further outlays to rescue another country's balance sheet.

他们刚刚同意出更多的钱挽救另一个国家的资产负债表就面临自家到期债务遭降级的局面。

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Housing debt is much higher. Still,around two trillion dollars in commercial mortgages are expected to come due for payment within the next five years.

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But there was a kind of winking acknowledgment that they were not going to let Greece fall out of the EU due to debt, if it came to that.

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That limit does not prevent rolling over existing debt that is due by issuing new debt to pay it, as that would not increase the total outstanding debt.

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This could mean, for example, that the troops in the various wars could not be supplied or paid, that air traffic controllers could not be paid, that the US government could not roll over the debt that comes due or issue the new debt that pays for 43% of federal budget expenditures.

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