限额债务

A lot of debt can lower your credit score especially if you are approaching your credit limit.

不少债务你可以信用得分较低，特别是如果你接近你的信贷限额。

So, the debt limit is how much money a country can borrow.

债务限额指的是政府可以借款的数额。

That way you can only dig yourself so far into debt before the spending limit stops you.

这样，你只能挖自己成为迄今为止消费债务限额站你面前。

On Monday night the Congress finally sent me an extension of the debt limit.

周一晚，国会终于呈给了我一份提高债务限额的法案。

The Senate vote would've raise the country's debt limit by $1.9 trillion.

参议院的投票将使美国的债务限额提高1.9兆美元。

This doesn't mean the debt limit is definitely going up, though; it still has to get through the House of Representatives.

然而，这并不意味着债务限额一定会上升，仍然需要众议院通过。

Finally, on March 29, eight months after Bob Rubin and I had first requested it, I signed a bill to increase the debt limit.

终于，在3月29日，在鲍勃·鲁宾和我最初提出要求的八个月后，我签署了一项法案，提高了债务限额。

One peculiarity of the debt limit is that it applies to the gross federal debt, much of which is held by the government itself.

美国债务限额的一个独特之处在于，它适用于联邦债务总额，而其中大部分由政府自身持有。

Some years ago, the House of Representatives established a sort of automatic mechanism for raising the debt limit and has voted to raise it to $13,000bn.

几年前，美国众议院建立了一种自动提高债务限额的机制，并投票决定将限额提高至1.3万亿美元。

Even worse, it lowered the debt limit again after thirty days, virtually ensuring a default.

更糟的是，30天后国会再度降低了债务限额，事实上，这项立法直接造成了政府拖欠债务。

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。