The economy relied increasingly on foreign borrowing. The current-account deficit widened to 14.6% of GDP in 2008.

希经济越来越依赖于对外借贷，其经常帐户赤字于2008年扩大到GDP的14.6%。

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To keep the wheel of borrowing and lending spinning, the Icelandic Banks relied on foreign institutions to lend them cash.

为了维持借贷和放贷的车轮转动，冰岛银行依赖于海外机构为他们提供现金贷款。

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A sharp fall in the dollar could spook foreign creditors of the U.S., potentially raising the U.S. cost of borrowing.

美元汇率大幅下跌将吓跑美国的外国债权人，可能会提高借贷成本。

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The RBI worries about the foreign borrowing of Indian firms even as it makes it impossible for them to find necessary finance from domestic providers.

ECONOMIST: India is caught in two minds about financial globalisation

The problem is not so much the budget deficit (though Greece was certainly profligate) as the net foreign borrowing by all actors, public and private (say to finance a trade deficit).

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

The flood of foreign-currency borrowing destabilised their economies and left them vulnerable when Western banks reduced lending.

ECONOMIST: BRICs, emerging markets and the world economy