large and complex financial transactions (often used with the implication that those individuals or institutions who engage in them are unethical)
双语例句
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There is obvious damage: high unemployment, millions of foreclosed homes and a huge hole in the public finances.
破坏性还是很明显的：高失业率、上百万因抵押而无法回收的房屋和千疮百孔的公共财政。
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Such anxiety is likely to be bigger when public debts are worryingly high because taxpayers judge that the need to reduce the deficit will soon hurt their finances.
Provided discussion of exactly how high taxes would have to rise was left vague, most people were sympathetic to the need to put Japan’s debt-ridden public finances in order.