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Few think that a liquidity1 crisis is the firm's only problem. Even when its credit was good, its projects had a nasty habit of busting2 their budgets. 少数人认为清偿危机是公司唯一的问题。即便公司信用良好,其项目也会习惯性地超出预算。
Some, such as GIFT City, a pet project of Narendra Modi, the prime minister, in Gujarat, look like white elephants. 一些项目,比如纳伦德拉·莫迪总理喜欢的古吉拉特邦国际金融科技城项目,看起来价值不菲且华而不实。
More than half of IL&FS's receivables are tied up in claims about delays, termination payments and the like. IL&FS超过半数的应收账款都被延期、终止付款等套牢。
The government has accused the management of being "well aware of the precarious3 and critical financial position", 政府指责公司管理层对“这些危险以及其岌岌可危的财务状况心知肚明”,
but continuing to present "a hunky-dory scenario4 which was just a mirage5". India's Serious Fraud Investigations6 Office is investigating. 但却继续营造出一种“一切顺利的情景,而这不过是一种幻象”。印度严重诈骗罪案委员会正在调查。
Bureaucrats7 in the Reserve Bank of India, the central bank, will be unsettled by the risks that lie outside the banking8 system, and not just within it. 印度储备银行,这家中央银行的官僚们因银行体系内外的风险而坐立不安。
Last year the government had to recapitalise state-owned banks to the tune10 of 2.1trn rupees. Shadow banks offer a new festering mess. 去年政府不得不调整银行的资本结构,其资本多达21000卢比。影子银行形成了一种新的日益恶化的烂摊子。
In recent years they have provided more credit to the commercial sector than banks have. 近些年,他们给商业部门提供的贷款超过了银行所有的资金。
Either India's fast-growing mutual11 funds and insurers, which own much of IL&FS's debt, have been judging risk inaccurately12, 印度的那些背负IL&FS债务的快速增长的共同基金和保险公司,他们要么是得到了不准确的风险评级,
or they know full well what they have been doing but expect the government to step in. 要么是他们非常清楚自己的所作所为,但还是期待政府会介入。
That will allow the revamped board to appoint new management, assess losses and start selling assets to pay down debt. 那将给新董事会时间任命新的管理层、评估损失并开始售卖资产偿还债务。
The government may seek to clear obstacles in the way of those of its projects that could be made profitable. 政府或许会争取通过那些有利可图的项目清除障碍。
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1 liquidity | |
n.流动性,偿债能力,流动资产 | |
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2 busting | |
打破,打碎( bust的现在分词 ); 突击搜查(或搜捕); (使)降级,降低军阶 | |
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3 precarious | |
adj.不安定的,靠不住的;根据不足的 | |
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n.剧本,脚本;概要 | |
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n.海市蜃楼,幻景 | |
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(正式的)调查( investigation的名词复数 ); 侦查; 科学研究; 学术研究 | |
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n.官僚( bureaucrat的名词复数 );官僚主义;官僚主义者;官僚语言 | |
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8 banking | |
n.银行业,银行学,金融业 | |
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n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形 | |
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n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整 | |
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adj.相互的,彼此的;共同的,共有的 | |
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