They also allowed problems in the banking system to fester rather than confront them directly .
他们还任由银行系统中的问题恶化下去,而非直面它们。
Japan 's government , by contrast , allowed its bad-debt problem to fester .
与其相比,日本政府则任其坏账问题溃烂。
For the next three years , this issue would continue to fester .
在接下来的三年里,这个问题会继续恶化。
Sometimes we bury our feelings where they fester and decay , and then begin to infect other parts of the psyche as well .
有时候,我们在溃烂和腐朽时会掩藏自己的感觉,然后这些伤口又开始传染给灵魂的其他部分。
Hatred and extremism fester in closed polities , whereas the internet tends to strengthen the tolerant and open-minded .
仇恨和极端主义在封闭政体内才会不断恶化,反之,互联网则趋向加强包容和开放思想。
But the cost of letting problems fester is now even greater than the cost of curing them .
然而目前来看,纵容问题恶化的成本远远大于解决这些问题。
Unfortunately , today 's calm makes it less likely that german politicians will countenance such a shift , with the result that the euro zone 's troubles will fester .
遗憾的是,如今平静的经济状况令德国的政客更不可能赞同这种改变,而结果就是欧元区的问题会继续恶化。
The result could be that the problems are left to fester , making it impossible for central banks to raise interest rates to a more normal level in future years , for fear of the damage this might cause .
European leaders , who spent much of the bush years complaining about american activism are now , ironically enough , worrying about the opposite problem a us that sits on the sidelines and lets problems fester .
In the past few centuries the arabs , once pre-eminent in a host of skills , from astronomy and algebra to architecture and engineering , have seen their societies stagnate and fester .