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VOA双语新闻：美财经双长恳求尽快通过救市议案.txt43风帆，不挂在桅杆上，是一块无用的布；桅杆，不挂上风帆，是一根平常的柱；理想，不付诸行动是虚无缥缈的雾；行动，而没有理想，是徒走没有尽头的路。44成功的门往往虚掩着，只要你勇敢去推，它就会豁然洞开。　　Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Tuesday implored members of the Senate Banking Committee to quickly enact legislation that would permit the government to buy up bad housing-related loans that have negatively impacted credit markets. 　　美联储主席伯南克和财政部长保尔森星期二恳求参议院银行委员会的成员尽快制定议案，允许政府收购严重影响信贷市场的房屋贷款坏帐。 　　Bernanke said quick action is required to stabilize financial markets and combat the threat of economic slowdown. He said markets wildly gyrated last week and dire consequences loomed as the government scrambled to come up with a plan to shore up bad housing related loans. 　　伯南克说，必须尽快采取行动，以稳定金融市场，抵御经济放缓的威胁。他说，上星期市场剧烈波动，可怕的后果赫然成形，政府匆忙拿出这份收购房屋贷款坏帐的方案。 　　Treasury Secretary Paulson told skeptical lawmakers that the two-year long slump in the U.S. housing market is the cause of the crisis. 　　财政部长保尔森对持怀疑态度的国会议员们表示，美国房地产市场持续两年的下滑是这场危机的根源。 　　The root cause is the housing correction [price declines], as you have all pointed out, that has resulted in illiquid mortgage assets choking off the flow of credit, which is so vitally important to our economy, said Paulson. 　　他说：“根本原因是房地产市场的调整，正像你们所有人指出得那样，房屋价格下滑导致了无法兑现的房贷资产，窒息了对我们的经济至关重要的信贷流动。” 　　Bernanke defended recent actions by the government to deal with the problem. Those measures since September 7, included taking over the two government sponsored entities most involved in home finance, allowing the Lehman Brothers investment bank to fail, taking over AIG - the worlds biggest insurer, and then announcing Friday a $700-billion rescue plan that must be approved by Congress. 　　伯南克为政府最近处理危机所采取的行动做辩护。这些措施包括，接管两家政府赞助的房屋贷款融资公司，允许投资银行雷曼兄弟公司申请破产保护，接管全球最大的保险公司美国国际集团，然后于上星期五宣布了7千亿美元的救援方案，这个方案必须得到国会的批准。 　　Bernanke denied that the government has been too generous to the shareholders and managers of failing institutions. 　　伯南克否定有关政府对于那些陷于困境的金融机构的股东和主管人员过于慷慨的说法。 　　We have i