A few years ago a new buyer could get a loan by putting down just 10% of a house's value; today he must come up with something closer to 25%.

前些年新购房者还可以抵押房产的10%来获得贷款，但是到了今天抵押房产的数额就已经接近25%了。

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I don't want this to come across as I'm saying something about them, but I don't think that they're, they can sit down and have a constructional conversation with me quite yet.

如果有这样的机会对我来说自然是好，但是我不觉得她们目前会想和我坐下来好好谈谈这个事情。

youdao

The experience has left me with such varied impressions that, when I sat down to craft remarks, I struggled to come up with something definitive.

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And I don't have the mental bandwidth to be able to sit down and read something as complex as the Bible and then come up with any understanding at all.

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And it might have been more accurate (though duller) to call it applied public-choice economics, rather than to come down with a touch of third-way syndrome (not this, not that, but something quite new and wonderful).

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