ability to borrow

基本解释

Many firms will see their debt-to-equity ratio rise and their ability to borrow fall.
许多企业会发现其产权比率上升，借贷能力下降。
Being the main reserve currency is also useful. America's ability to borrow and to settle its imports in dollars has saved it from paying more interest to finance its profligate ways.
美元成为世界主要的储备货币，美国还可以将进口货物以美元结算，而少付利息，以维持奢华的消费方式。
A key measure of fear and fragility is the ability of poor and unstable countries to borrow money on the debt markets.
衡量世界格局不稳定性的一个重要指标就是贫困和不稳定国家在债务市场上的融资能力。

So what banks offer is liquidity -the ability to borrow short even though the loans that are made are long-term.
而银行就提供了流动性,即接受短期存款,但可以发放长期贷款的能力
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The financial performance of private companies and their ability to borrow is critical to the U.S. economy.
FORBES: Private Companies' Health Heading Into Sequestration
Their ability to borrow so much has a lot to do with lenders' astonishingly generous attitudes to companies with apparently over-extended balance sheets.
ECONOMIST: America’s financial markets may be about to shrink
Added together, approximately two-thirds of our small business respondents are confident they have the ability to borrow capital when, and if, they need it.
FORBES: Improving Small Business Banking Is A Good Economic Indicator