After all , if you bounced a check or tried to withdraw more cash from the atm than you had in your account , you wouldn 't suffer any embarrassment when the bank refused to process a transaction .
For a period , it even looked as if the financial system might break down so completely that money would stop coming out of atm machines .
曾有一段时间,金融体系甚至看起来就好像会彻底崩溃,自动提款机将再也提不出钱来。
Don 't go to the atm by yourself at 2 a.m. , leave the windows to your houseopen at night , or walk home from the barwasted .
不要独自在凌晨两点钟去自动柜员机旁取款,夜间不要大开窗户,或者是从废弃的地方回家。
That way , if your flight touches down in prague at 1:30 a.m. , you won 't have to hunt down an atm just to pay the cab driver .
这样,假设即使你的航班在凌晨一点半到达布拉格,你也不用为了打出租车而满世界地找自动提款机了。
And recall the indian entrepreneur who distilled an atm into a smart-phone and a fingerprint scanner : local bank clerks now bicycle out to villages and set up shop under a tree , using the scanner to identify savers and taking in or handing out money .
Having been told in turn that the credit card , the atm and the telephone would completely transform their business , and then found that business carried on much as usual , they have been rightly sceptical about similar predictions for the internet .