The idea that accounting caused the crisis is specious, but Europe’s politicians, egged on by banks that took huge write-downs when market prices swooned, have nonetheless lashed out.

虽然并不是会计引起了这次危机，但欧洲的政客们在一些银行（一旦市场价格下跌，这些银行将会承受巨大的计提减值损）的怂恿下仍然猛烈地抨击着会计制度。

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The idea that accounting caused the crisis is specious, but Europe's politicians, egged on by Banks that took huge write-downs when market prices swooned, have nonetheless lashed out.

虽然并不是会计引起了这次危机，但欧洲的政客们在一些银行(一旦市场价格下跌，这些银行将会承受巨大的计提减值损)的怂恿下仍然猛烈地抨击着会计制度。

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These are marked to market and have been the main source of the savage write-downs that Banks have suffered.

这些资产是盯市的，并成为银行遭受大规模减记的主要根源。

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Some say a solution is to suspend the mark-to-market accounting rules that have caused the cascade of write-downs in the first place.

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They don't like mark-to-market accounting, which has forced billions of dollars in write-downs.

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In the current crisis, where there is no real market, the rule has forced massive write-downs, which have precipitated solvency and counter-party credit concerns that have caused further write-downs.

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