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🏦 In China, banks and internet lenders trying to collect on a growing pile of overdue credit-card bills and personal loans are resorting to sometimes aggressive tactics to get borrowers to repay.在中國，銀行和網路貸款機構正試圖收回愈來愈多的逾期信用卡欠款和個人貸款，這些機構有時會採取激進手段讓借款人償還債務。

-overdue: 逾期未付的
-resort to: 訴諸某種手段、採取
-aggressive: 激進的


⚒Since January, when the coronavirus began spreading across China, the country’s lenders have been grappling with rising volumes of delinquent consumer loans after many people were confined to their homes for months, suffered pay cuts or lost their jobs.
今年1月新冠病毒疫情開始在中國蔓延，許多人被困家中數月，遭遇減薪或失業，消費貸款拖欠數量不斷增加，從那時起中國貸款機構一直努力應對這種狀況。

-grapple with: 設法解決、努力應對
-delinquent: 拖欠的、逾期未付的
-be confined to: 被困於…、受限
-pay cuts: 減薪


🔎Some banks and online lenders were also hamstrung in their debt collection efforts during a more than 10-week lockdown of the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where many call centers are located.
在武漢長達10幾個星期的封鎖期間，有些銀行和在線貸款機構的追債業務也無法進行——武漢是許多呼叫中心的所在地。

-hamstring: 令人受挫、使人無法施展
-debt collecting: 討債、追債
-lockdown: 封鎖


🌊Before the downturn, the country’s consumers racked up record volumes of credit-card debt and short-term loans, as well as mortgages and auto loans as banks and online lenders jockeyed for business while the economy was booming.
在這波經濟低迷期前，隨著銀行和線上貸款機構在經濟繁榮期間競相爭取業務，中國消費者的信用卡債務、短期貸款以及抵押貸款和汽車貸款規模達到創紀錄的水準。

-economic downturn 景氣低迷
-rack up 累計、累加
-jockey for sth: 謀取、爭取某事
✍常見搭配：jockey with sb 和…競爭，用法同 compete with



🌿The proliferation of smartphones and mobile apps in recent years also gave millions of people greater access to loans from online lenders. Many borrowers provided the contact details for their family members and friends when applying for loans.
近年來，智慧型手機和行動應用程式的普及也讓數以百萬計的人更容易從線上貸款機構獲得貸款。許多借款人在申請貸款時提供了家人和朋友的聯繫方式。

-proliferation: 快速增長、急速擴張、普及
-give access to: 給予…的管道、得以取得


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❓❓多益模擬題❓:

Wang Xiaoting, founder of Beijing-based He Sheng Fintech Co., a company that ______ hundreds of individuals to collect debts __________ banks and licensed online lenders, said loan delinquencies are rising among young Chinese who borrowed heavily to fund their free-spending ways before the pandemic hit.

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