bridging loan

noun

1. 过渡性贷款（常在卖掉旧房前作买新房之用）
   an amount of money that a bank lends you for a short time, especially so that you can buy a new house while you are waiting to sell your old one

1. 过渡性贷款
   A bridging loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.

1. Greece will probably require a bridging loan at some point. Portugal might too.
   希腊到时候很可能会要求获得一笔过渡性贷款，葡萄牙可能也需要。
2. Last month it had to launch an$ 828 million rights issue to help fund the bridging loan it needed for the deal.
   上个月，塔塔汽车为了偿还完成这宗交易所需要的过渡性贷款，不得不启动价值8.28亿美元的配股。