To introduce Eurobonds as a crisis-fighting measure would only encourage less creditworthy countries in their spend thrift ways.

以欧洲债券作为抗危机措施，只会助长信誉度较低的成员国挥霍无度的气焰。

If two American firms borrow in dollars at different rates, the implication is that the one with the lower rate is the more creditworthy.

如果两家美国公司以不同的利率借入美元，这意味着利率较低的公司信誉较好。

They encouraged banks to buy government bonds: nobody, after all, is more creditworthy than Uncle Sam and nothing is easier to sell in a crisis than Treasuries.

他们鼓励银行购买政府债券：毕竟，没有人比山姆大叔更有信誉， 而且在危机中没有什么比美国国债更容易出售的了。