It was $7 billion, and they ended up declaring basically the whole thing a write-off.

这笔交易价值70亿美元，最终他们几乎将整个投资全部。

As if the write-off is better than saving the money.

仿佛比省钱更好似的。

And for the second consecutive quarter, Amex's net write-off rate actually ticked lower.

连续第二个季度，美国运通的率实际上有所下降。

The people at Fox have been willing to take very bold chances over the years on projects  as long as the PNL models seem to calculate out to a tolerable quarterly write off.

福克斯司的人多年来一直愿意承担非常大胆的，要PNL模型计算出的季度额在可接受范围内。

Some revelations will happen legitimately, as local governments recapitalise banks, pumping in funds to enable them to continue to write off bad debts.

一些披露行为将会合法地发生，因为地方政府在银行资本重组时注入资金，使其能够继续坏账。

And it can be written off.

这可以被。

Should we eat the lost payments?

我们应该这些未支付的款项吗？