offshore interest

基本解释

Offshore accounts offered puny rates of interest because banks could do so little with the money.
境外账户的利率小的可怜，因为银行拿这些人民币一点用都没有。
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Still, the market potential for wind power is very big, partly because there's a lot of interest in going offshore as the space on land runs out.
高说，“不过，风力发电的市场潜力非常巨大，其部分原因是由于陆地空间耗尽使人们对海洋产生了很大的兴趣。”
Offshore accounts offered puny rates of interest because banks could do so little with the money. But as deposits have grown (see chart), so has the number of firms seeking to tap them.
大陆之外的账户所提供的利率根本就是微不足道的因为银行对这些钱并没有做太多的利用，但是随着存款的增长，这已经使公司的数量急剧上升。

Ratings agencies, which Mr.Fillon said helped fuel the crisis, must adopt rules for dealing with conflicts of interest and offshore banking centers, which often allow clients to evade paying taxes in their home countries, need to be vigorously regulated.

However we expect things to be much better on the offshore front this quarter as the firm has bagged new contracts in the region and firm oil prices have stimulated interest in offshore drilling.
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