救助 bailout
美联储于周三早间宣布，将向AIG提供最多850亿美元的紧急贷款，并获得AIG 79.9%的股东权益。分析师认为，美联储救助AIG的做法有助于保护美国金融市场，降低经济进一步受创的风险。The government announced an $85 billion bailout of the huge insurer AIG in a bid to avoid further market upheaval.
美国政府宣布向保险巨头美国国际集团(AIG)提供850亿美元的救助以避免进一步的市场波动。
上面的报道中，bailout是经济学中的一个常见词，a term used to describe a situation where a bankrupt or nearly bankrupt entity, such as a corporation or a bank, is given a fresh injection of liquidity, in order to meet its short term obligations, often by governments or consortia of investors(集团在面临倒闭的情况下，由政府或投资财团提供短期资金注入以助其度过难关的情况，即“救助”)，美联储向AIG提供的这笔贷款则叫做bridge loan(过渡贷款)或者emergency loan(紧急贷款)。
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