美語情景對話 第1263期:Who is to blame for the financial crisis? 誰應爲金融危機負責?
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，來自立陶宛，這是克里斯托夫，來自比利時，今天要討論的問題是，誰應爲金融危機負責？現在所有人都在談論這個，克里斯托夫，你的看法是什麼？Christophe: The Americans of course.
克里斯托夫：當然是美國人。Aiste: Americans! OK.
艾斯蒂：美國人！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：對，因爲他們給民衆提供低息貸款，然後突然低息貸款變成了高息貸款。人們無法再償還貸款，不得不賣掉房子，房子的所有權到了銀行手裏，但是因爲被迫將房子賣給銀行或交給銀行的人非常多，所以各家銀行最後有數千座房子的所有權，然後房價開始下降，所有人都變窮了。你呢，艾斯蒂？你認爲金融危機應該歸咎於誰？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：我沒有明確的看法。我認爲有許多相關因素導致了金融危機，我不太清楚具體原因，不過我非常不喜歡，因爲金融危機的影響很大，你能感覺到物價持續上漲，貨幣非常不穩定，你手裏的錢每天都在縮水。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：我認爲你也要爲此負責，因爲你的購買力不夠。你一直攢錢買飛機票。Aiste: Ok.
艾斯蒂：好吧。
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重點講解：
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.
她突然看起來一點都不困了。
2. pay off 償清，還清（債務）；
例句：It would take him the rest of his life to pay off that loan.
他得用餘生來還清那筆貸款。
3. lead to 招致；致使；導致；
例句：A lack of prudence may lead to financial problems.
不夠謹慎可能會導致財政上出現問題。
4. be responsible for 負有責任的；應承擔責任的；
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誰或者什麼造成了這一切。
