Question

请问下面这个句子如何翻译？

Amid tough questioning from Democrats, Mr Bernanke defended the decision to intervene to save investment bank Bear Stearns from collapse. The central bank’s rescue of Bear raised “difficult questions”, he said. But the damage caused by a default ”could have been severe and extremely difficult to contain” with fallout for the real economy as well as the financial system.

Answer 1

在回答民主党人棘手的问题时，Bernanke 先生为通过干预来挽救Bear Stearns 银行的决定辩护．中央银行对BEAR银行的援救引出了许多复杂的问题，他说．由于拖欠所带来的损害会变得更为严重和极端，同时也会伴随着经济和金融体制的下滑