indebtedness

基本解释

Nietzsche acknowledges that his inquiries into indebtedness and contractual obligation have so far ignored the moralization of these concepts.
尼采认识到，他对债务和合同,义务到目前为止的追索,是忽略了这些概念的道德化。
But, in an aside, he noted that some European countries—Spain, Britain and Ireland—fit just as snugly into the template of asset boom, indebtedness, capital inflows and economic woes to come.
但在另一边，他指出一些欧洲国家——西班牙、英国和爱尔兰——非常紧密的适用于这个关于资产繁荣、债务和资本流入的模板，经济的困难即将到来。
Obama is unlikely to speak to this directly, not least because of the unfavorable comparisons that one could draw to the United States' own indebtedness.
奥巴马不太可能直接地谈起这个，并不仅仅因为作这样一个不讨好的比较会扯出美国自己的债务问题。

Now, there are a couple of ways to think about indebtedness and I'd like you to tell me which one is correct as applied to the nation.
那么，究竟是什么导致国家债台高筑呢,我有两套思路，麻烦你们告诉我,哪个更能说明现状。
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So that's a lot of indebtedness.
可以想象这个债务量是个什么概念了。
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There's a wonderful work of literary criticism -- I mentioned it last time --on Milton's indebtedness to Spenser in the book by John Guillory called Poetic Authority.
有一篇很棒的文学评论-,上次我提到了--关于弥尔顿对Spenser的感激,在约翰·久乐锐所著《诗人权威》中。
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Our substantial indebtedness could adversely affect our financial condition, our cash flow and our operating flexibility.
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