There are a few things to note about Puerto Rico's failure to pay principal and interest due on its Public Finance Corporation bonds.

波多黎各未能按时向公共金融公司支付债务的本金和利，这件事有几点需要注意。

When you buy a bond, you're essentially loaning money to the company — or government — with the promise that they'll pay it back later with interest.

在你购买债券时，你实际上是把钱借给公司——或政府——接受它们会在之后把本金和利一起归还的承诺。

You'll still owe the same principal, so you'll have to pay it later.

你还欠着同样的本金，所以以后还得偿还。

But he must pay it back - with an interest rate of sixty percent!

但他必须归还本金和利，而利高达60%！

What was worse, people were demanding their money and returns.

更糟糕的是，们要求返还他们的本金和回报。

Well, he can't even keep up with the interest, let alone the actual repayments.

他连利都付不起，更不用说本金了。

They're not telling you anything about the risk of getting your money back.

他们没有告诉你任何关于拿回本金的风险。

Repayment of the capital not to start before ten years.

十后开始偿还本金。

Assuming that Vincent's planned $800,000 nest egg earns a very conservative 6 percent, that would mean $48,000 a year in proceeds (also before taxes) that he could draw on without touching any of the principal.

假设文森特计划的八十万美元储蓄只赚了 6%，这个比例非常保守，这意味着，他每可以在不触及任何本金的情况下提取四万八千美元的收益（也包括税前收益）。

REID HOFFMAN: Well, SocialNet was, in Silicon Valley parlance, a failure. We did return our capital to our investors, but we didn't actually make an ongoing company.

用硅谷的话说，SocialNet 是个失败的网站。我们确实把本金还给了投资者，但我们并没有建立一个持续发展的公司。

It is politics, not economics, that underpins the government's decision to privatise the banks slowly and to get back at least as much as it paid for them.

政府决定缓慢私有化银行并企图至少收回注入本金背后是出于政治动机而非经济目的。

These are securities that protect issuers, mostly insurers and governments, from severe losses in the event of a natural disaster by paying out when certain conditions are met.

巨灾债券是保护发行（主要是保险公司和政府）在发生自然灾害时免受严重损失的证券，当满足某些条件时（购买持有债券的）支付（利或部分本金）。

The principal on such products was considered guaranteed, but the banks funnelled the cash towards high-risk borrowers such as small property developers or coal-mining outfits.

他们认为这类产品的本金是有保障的，但银行把这些资金输送给了小型房地产开发商或煤矿企业等高风险的借款方。

In 2009 the G8 pledged to cut the average cost of international remittances to 5% of the sum sent within five years.

2009，八国集团曾经承诺在五内把国际汇款平均手续费降低至本金的5%。

A busy summer of space travel came to a soft splashing end this week for astronauts Bob Benkin and Doug Hurley.

鲍勃·本金和道格·赫尔利，他们忙碌的夏季太空旅行在本周进行了软着陆。

Commercial banks, especially small and medium-sized ones, should replenish capital to ensure sufficient lending to the real economy, said Lou.

楼继伟说，商业银行，特别是中小银行，应该补充资本金，确保向实体经济提供足够的贷款。

Users do not have to pay monthly fees or have a set amount of money in their account.

使用这款应用程序的不必支付费，也不必在账户上存入一笔本金。

The bank will be based in China and it will have an initial capitalization of 100 billion dollars.

银行将设在中国，初始资本金为1000亿美元。

The upper limit of the principal of such deposits is 500,000 yuan for each customer at each bank.

储户在单家试点银行特定养老储蓄产品存款本金上限为 50 万元。

Japan's regulators have asked banks to defer principal repayments on mortgages, and the Netherlands temporarily banned foreclosures.

日本的监管机构已要求银行推迟偿还抵押贷款的本金。