Mrs Merkel has tried to help indebted euro members while refusing to write blank cheques.

默克尔一边试图帮助负债累累的欧元区成员国，一边拒绝开空头支票。

Yet the crisis showed that regulators can only offer blank cheques or no cheques at all to the biggest firms.

但是这场危机表明，对那些最大的公司，监管者要么只会开空白支票，要么没有支票。

When inexperienced banks write blank cheques abroad they usually accumulate losses as well as the odd art masterpiece.

当经验不足的银行给国外客户开空白支票时，通常他们积累的不仅是越来越多的损失，还有各种稀奇古怪的艺术杰作。

People write out plenty of metaphorical cheques, whether blank or bouncing.

人们开出大量或空白或巨额的隐喻性支票。