中国推出利好房地产的新政后，股市投资者热情高涨但银行咬紧牙关面对松绑带来的贷款风险。请看本报昨日的报道：

    As stock market investors cheer China’s latest bid to boost the country’s ailing housing sector, domestic bankers are gritting their teeth over the risks they face in further relaxing lending rules to homebuyers.

    Alarmed by persistent weakness in the property market and its increasing drag on the economy, policymakers said Monday they were cutting down-payment levels for the second time in six months and offering bigger tax breaks.

    报道中的grit one’s teeth就是“咬紧牙关（面对困境）”。例如：

    The young policeman gritted his teeth and walked slowly towards the armed criminal.

    年轻警察咬紧牙关，朝武装歹徒慢慢走过去。