The people were booted out and given either a drab apartment several kilometers away or payment worth a fraction of the going market rate for their current home.

人们从自己的房子里被赶出来，分得几公里外的一处简陋的公寓，或是按当时的市场利率得到一部分补偿。

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Floating-rate mortgages last year reduced many borrowers' payment burden as the Bank of England dropped its base rate to 0.5% and lenders adjusted their standard variable rates downward in response.

去年英格兰银行将基准利率下调到0.5%，贷方也随之降低了可变利率，于是浮动利率按揭使得很多借方的还款压力得到了舒缓。

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Think of how much interest you save. Being late on a single payment increases your interest rate.

—这并不容易，你可以节约不少利息，延迟还款你的利率将增加。

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