Northern Rock has been kept afloat by public subsidy since September, when international credit markets cut off its main source of funding and forced it to go cap in hand to the Bank of England.

• 诺森罗克银行自九月份起一直保持发放补助金，直到国际信用市场切断了它提供资金的主要来源，它还被迫卑躬屈膝地去找英国银行。