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But she did attempt to limit the damage to the newly warming relations between trustbusters on both sides of the Atlantic.
不过考虑到美欧双方竞争监管当局的关系刚刚和暖，她也确实努力地调和自己的言论以减少对此关系的破坏。
There are two possible responses to it: regulate banks to try to make them safer, and attempt to limit the implicit guarantee.
对此有两种可能的反应：监管银行使得他们变得更安全，试图限制绝对的担保。
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The attempt to limit the trouble to these three and stop contagion spreading to Spain has manifestly failed: instead Italy and now France, both of which seem to be solvent, have been infected.
试图限制这三个国家并阻止灾难蔓延到西班牙的计划显然已经失败：反而像意大利和法国这样看起来能还债的国家，也已经被波及了。

There has even been an attempt to limit the environmentally devastating charcoal trade, which previously enriched unscrupulous warlords.
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Many Internet service providers would attempt to limit connections with destinations deemed not worth the cost of termination fees.
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