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奥巴马英文演讲稿：签署金融改革法案THE PRESIDENT: Well, good morning, everyone. 总统：大家早上好！ AUDIENCE: Good morning. 听众：早上好！ THE PRESIDENT: We are gathered in the heart of our nation’s capital, 总统：我们相聚在国家首都的核心。 surrounded by memorials to leaders and citizens who served our nation in 被那些在最早时期和最困难时期为我们的国家服务的领导人和公民所包围。 its earliest days and in its days of greatest trial. Today is such a time for America. 今天是这样一个时刻对于美国来说。 Over the past two years, we have faced the worst recession since the Great 在过去的两年，我们面对了自大萧条以来最为糟糕的经济衰退。 Depression. Eight million people lost their jobs. Tens of millions saw 八百万人失业。 the value of their homes and retirement savings plummet. Countless 上千万人眼睁睁的看着自己的房子和退休储蓄的价值骤然下跌。 businesses have been unable to get the loans they need and many have been 无数的商人已经不能得到他们所需要的贷款，还有很多已经倒闭。 forced to shut their doors. And although the economy is growing again, 尽管经济已有所好转 too many people are still feeling the pain of the downturn. 依然有很多人仍饱受经济低迷所带来的痛苦 Now, while a number of factors led to such a severe recession, the primary 虽然导致这样的经济衰退的因素有不少， cause was a breakdown in our financial system. It was a crisis born of 但是最主要的原因是我们金融系统的崩溃。 a failure of responsibility from certain corners of Wall Street to the 它是由于华尔街的某几个角落以及华盛顿权力部门的门厅的失职引起的。 halls of power in Washington. For years, our financial sector was 数年以来，我们的财政部门 governed by antiquated and poorly enforced rules that allowed some to 都被过时的和贫乏的强制性制度所支配，以至于让某些人钻了制度的空子 game the system and take risks that endangered the entire economy. 铤而走险才破坏了整个经济体制。 Unscrupulous lenders locked consumers into complex loans with hidden 无耻的放贷人利用隐藏的费用将消费者锁入复杂的贷款中。 costs. Firms like AIG placed massive, risky bets with borrowed money. 像AIG这样的公司冒着巨大的风险借入资本 And while the rules left abuse and excess unchecked, they also left 这种制度不仅留下了额外的未经审查的恶习，他们也将纳税人引入了圈套假如 taxpayers on the hook if a big bank or financial institution ever failed. 一个大的银行或者金融组织倒闭。 Now, even before the crisis hit, I went to Wall Street and I called for 现在，甚至是危机到来之前，我去华尔街，总的