1. But, in addition to that basically simple concept, the bank and its customer owe a large number of obligations to one another.
    除了这一基本的简单的概念外，银行和储户彼此还需承担大量义务。

2. For me and a classmate (and maybe for some who read this account), the experience made a common claim come alive.
    只是，对于我和我的一位同学（也许还有哪些看到这篇报道的人）而言, 这项活动使一个人皆知之的观点变得真真切切了。

3. When anyone opens a current account at a bank, he is lending the bank money, repayment of which he may demand at any time, either in cash or by drawing a cheque in favour of another person.
    任何人在银行开一个活期账户，就等于把钱借给了银行。这笔钱他可以随时提取，提取的方式可以是取现金，也可以是开一张以他人为收款人的支票。

4. When, for example, a customer first opens an account, he instructs the bank to debit his account only in respect of cheques drawn by himself.
    比如，储户首次在银行开户时，嘱咐银行他的存款只能凭本世人签字的支票来提取。

5. We´ll have to pay them something on account.
    我们得先还他们一点欠款。

6. We budget it, save it, waste it, steal it, kill it, cut it, account for it; we also charge for it. It is a precious resource.
    我们安排时间、节约时间、浪费时间、挤抢时间、消磨时间、缩减时间、对时间的使用作出解释; 我们还要因时间而收取费用。时间是一种宝贵的资源。

7. We put our hands down but I just stayed exactly where I was. Then one of the bank workers pressed a button behind the counter and the steel gate at the front of the bank moved into place so that we were locked in. We just stayed like that until the p
    仿佛在梦中一样，我不紧不慢地走出了银行。没有人试图阻止我，警察似乎对我并不感兴趣。他们不打算盘问我，也没有要求我作证或别的什么，所以我就那样慢悠悠地走出了银行。

8. The bank certified my accounts.
    银行证明我的帐目无误.

9. The account he gives of his childhood is quite fictitious.
    他把童年往事说得很假.

10. The bank is controlled by a famous financier.
    这家银行由一位著名的金融家控制。