Given the frequency with which institutions are collapsing, he would have been keen to invoke that power soon.
在连续遭受金融机构垮台打击后，保尔森迫切需要尽快获得这个权力。The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 was one of these "credit events" .
2008年9月的雷曼兄弟的垮台就是这些“贷款事件”中的一件。If Congress approved them now, the President warned, the fragile peace process that he is trying to keep in motion could fall apart.
总统警告说：如果国会通过，则他正试图抢劫的脆弱的和平努力可能垮台。But it was equally unpalatable for the south that internal divisions in the north could provoke a sudden collapse, he said.
但他表示，如果朝鲜的内部分歧导致政权突然垮台，韩国也同样难以接受。He reflected on the options which had been open to him, one of which had led to his downfall.
他反省那些自己以前一直可有的选择，其中有一选择导致了他的垮台。Despite those fears, Washington and Seoul have no real contingency plans in case of a regime collapse in Pyongyang.
尽管有以上担忧，但对于平壤政权之垮台，华盛顿和首尔并无真正的应变计划。The West and its partners must be ready to maintain political, economic and military pressure until he is gone.
西方及其伙伴应不断施以政治、经济和军事压力，直至其垮台。Iraq has long suffered from the infiltration of jihadists from Syria, who might be emboldened if the Assad regime were to fall.
还有，来自叙利亚的圣战分子则让伊拉克长期深受其苦，阿萨德政权垮台或许会让那些圣战分子欣喜若狂。He thought these regimes could fall, but he did not believe that the nations would modernize in a Western direction.
他认为，这些政权终会垮台的，但这些国家不会按照西方所指的方向走向现代化。