贬值

Fiji's central bank has devalued its currency 20% to boost exports and tourism.

斐济的中央银行让货币贬值20%，以刺激出口和旅游业。

The risk, of course, is that the forint devalues or depreciates.

当然，如果福林贬值，此投资就有风险。

But many lenders didn't reckon with a crisis such as today's, when currencies such as the forint fall and locals struggle to make rising monthly payments.

但许多银行都没料想到会发生今天这样的危机。福林等货币在贬值，当地人为每个月的还款而伤脑筋。

With the Hungarian currency, the forint, plunging to record lows, many Hungarians are unable to pay-off their financial obligations.

随著匈牙利货币福林贬值到创记录的低水平，很多匈牙利人变得无力偿还他们的债务。

According to Hans-Joachim Dübel of Finpolconsult, a consultancy, Hungarian consumers who took out loans in January 2007 may now be paying as much as 70% more than they did then because of the forint's depreciation and higher risk premiums.

据Finpolconsult咨询公司的Hans-Joachim Dübel表示，因为福林贬值和较高的风险溢价，那些在2007年1月贷款的匈牙利消费者，现在要偿还的贷款额较那时候相比，多出了70%。

Authorities in both Ukraine and Hungary insisted they were notin difficulties and Hungary's forint, which lost 7 per cent the daybefore, edged up 1.5 per cent.

乌克兰和匈牙利政府均坚称，他们没有陷入困境，前一天贬值了7%的匈牙利福林昨日小幅回升了1.5%。

Since the start of the year, the South Korean won has shed about 8% of its value against the dollar; the Russian ruble and the Hungarian forint have weakened about 14% versus the greenback.

今年年初以来，韩圆兑美元已经贬值了大约8%。俄罗斯卢布和匈牙利福林兑美元下滑了14%左右。

A run on the Hungarian currency, the forint, would mean default and devaluation: a national humiliation, and a disaster for the millions of Hungarians who have borrowed euros and Swiss francs to pay for houses and consumer durables.

匈牙利的通货福林预计将会贬值：对于数以百万计的借贷欧元和瑞士法郎来支付房屋和耐用商品的匈牙利人来说，这是一场国家耻辱和灾难。

People are adjusting to the new exchange rates and hoping the franc will devalue.

人们正在适应新的汇率并希望法郎贬值。

Countries with free-falling currencies, burst housing bubbles and a heavy reliance on finance and trade will also suffer.

而那些货币大幅贬值、房产泡沫破裂、严重依赖金融和贸易的国家也会深受金融危机影响。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。