The bank's officials have argued, in increasingly hysterical tones, that any tampering with Greek debt, even a modest extension of maturities, would be a catastrophe.

欧中中央银行的官员们以一种歇斯底里的语调争论道，任何对于希腊债务的改变，即便是对到期债务的一丁点延期，都将导致一场灾难。