But those Banks balked at lending the money to each other or to clients and investors in need of it.
但是这些银行在面对其他银行、企业以及投资者的贷款要求时仍然惜贷。
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To their shock, the supplier still balked at providing exclusivity—even though it had no chance of selling anything close to a million pounds a year to anyone else.
While his early handling of the crisis was good, he has balked at selling assets for less than book value, even though the bank’s shares have for some time traded at a steep discount to that measure.