Twenty or 30 years ago, if a bank in North America lent too much money to some people who couldn't afford to pay it back and the bank went bust, that was bad for the lender and bad for the borrower, but we didn't imagine it would bring the global economic system to its knees for nearly a decade.
20或30年前，如果北美的一家银行 借出了太多钱 给那些无力偿还的人 并因此而倒闭了， 只是借贷双方 运气不好而已， 但我们不会想到 这会给全球经济系统带来 将近10年的瘫痪期。