美语情景对话 第1263期:Who is to blame for the financial crisis? 谁应为金融危机负责?
Aiste: Hello, this is Aiste from Lithuania and Christophe from Belgium, and our question today is ... who is to blame for the financial crisis? Everybody's talking about that right now, so Christophe what is your opinion?
艾斯蒂：大家好，我是艾斯蒂，来自立陶宛，这是克里斯托夫，来自比利时，今天要讨论的问题是，谁应为金融危机负责？现在所有人都在谈论这个，克里斯托夫，你的看法是什么？Christophe: The Americans of course.
克里斯托夫：当然是美国人。Aiste: Americans! OK.
艾斯蒂：美国人！好。
Christophe: Yes, because they were giving cheap loans to the people and then all of a sudden the cheap loans became very expensive loans. They couldn't pay off their loans anymore, and they had to sell their house: the bank owned their house, but there were so many people who had to sell their house to the bank or give away their house to the bank that all the banks ended up with having thousands of houses, so the price of the house dropped ... and then everybody was poor. What about you Aiste? Who do you think is to blame for the financial crisis?
克里斯托夫：对，因为他们给民众提供低息贷款，然后突然低息贷款变成了高息贷款。人们无法再偿还贷款，不得不卖掉房子，房子的所有权到了银行手里，但是因为被迫将房子卖给银行或交给银行的人非常多，所以各家银行最后有数千座房子的所有权，然后房价开始下降，所有人都变穷了。你呢，艾斯蒂？你认为金融危机应该归咎于谁？Aiste: Well, I don't really have a clear opinion. I think there are so many interrelated factors that are leading to it that I actually really don't know, but I really don't like because it is affecting, and you can feel the prices are going up, the currencies are unstable, and every day you can lose even a small amount of money that you have.
艾斯蒂：我没有明确的看法。我认为有许多相关因素导致了金融危机，我不太清楚具体原因，不过我非常不喜欢，因为金融危机的影响很大，你能感觉到物价持续上涨，货币非常不稳定，你手里的钱每天都在缩水。Christophe: I think you are also responsible for it because you don't buy enough. You always save your money to buy plane tickets.
克里斯托夫：我认为你也要为此负责，因为你的购买力不够。你一直攒钱买飞机票。Aiste: Ok.
艾斯蒂：好吧。
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重点讲解：
1. all of a sudden 突然地；出乎意料地；
例句：All of a sudden she didn't look sleepy any more.
她突然看起来一点都不困了。
2. pay off 偿清，还清（债务）；
例句：It would take him the rest of his life to pay off that loan.
他得用余生来还清那笔贷款。
3. lead to 招致；致使；导致；
例句：A lack of prudence may lead to financial problems.
不够谨慎可能会导致财政上出现问题。
4. be responsible for 负有责任的；应承担责任的；
例句：He could never quite put his finger on who or what was responsible for all this.
他一直就搞不清楚是谁或者什么造成了这一切。
