There was a real risk of the United States being unable to pay its bills.

美确实有无力偿还债务的风险。

A lot of these loans that people were unable to pay back were sold on to other banks, many of them in the UK.

很多种人们无力偿还的被卖给了其他银行，其中很多来自英。

But many home buyers had been given mortgage loans that they could not afford to pay back. And that was not the only problem.

但许多购房者得了他们无力偿还的抵押，并不是唯一的问题。

The government I lead will not leave the next generation, your children and grandchildren with a debt to settle that we were too weak to pay ourselves.

我领导的政府不会给我们子孙后代留下我们自己都无力偿还的债务。

We've all heard stories of consumers drowning in credit card debt, with interest charges piling up faster than they can pay it off.

我们都听过消费者无力偿还信用卡债务的故事，利息费用堆积的速度超过了他们还的速度。

Businessmen could not pay back money they owed the banks. And they could not get loans to keep their businesses open. Many factories closed. Great numbers of people were out of work.

商人无力偿还他们欠银行的钱，也不能获来维持他们的生意。许多工厂倒闭，很多人因此而失业。

When the economy is bad some people cannot afford to pay the loan that they have on their house;they can't make their payments, and so the bank takes the house back and in many cases, auctions the home off.

当经济不景气时， 有些人无力偿还他们的房屋； 他们无法还，因此银行收回房屋， 在许多情况下， 拍卖房屋。