Over-the-counter instruments tend to be illiquid, so their prices fall especially hard under the pressure of a fire sale. 场外金融工具往往缺乏流动性,因此在贱价出售时,价格下跌得尤其惨烈。
Using aspirin, an over-the-counter pill on sale in every supermarket without a prescription, to treat serious circulatory disease may seem almost like quackery. 阿司匹林是一种不需处方,在每家超市柜台都有出售的药丸,用其治疗严重的循环系统疾病,看起来如同江湖医术。