1. Many people are now stuck with expensive fixed-rate mortgages. 许多人现在无法摆脱高额的定息按揭。
2. National banks can package their own mortgages and underwrite them as securities. 国家银行可以组合包装自己的的抵押贷款,以证券形式承销。
3. Many more institutions, especially banks, were allowed to lend money for mortgages, and what was more, banks could lend out more money than they actually held. 更多机构，特别是银行，被允许做抵押贷款；此外，银行还可以借出比实际持有量更多的钱。
4. Too often lenders connived with borrowers to swell the size of mortgages, or worse, sell borrowers the wrong policy. 放贷机构常常与借款者勾结，以扩大抵押贷款规模，或者更糟糕的是，向借款者兜售错误的政策。
5. The remaining partners in the law firm were still together, attached unwillingly at the hip by the bondage of mortgages and the banknotes. 律师事务所的其余合伙人仍然在一起，被抵押贷款和钞票的束缚不情愿地绑在一起。
