金融市场是（），它发挥着吸收分配储蓄、确定利率与金融资产的价格的作用。

A.重要的金融机构

B.是不可或缺的金融组织

C.管理金融体系的机构

D.金融体系的中心

"The foreign teachers wondered what we Chinese teachers do in political meetings and I told them that we had to go through the ______ of lengthy formalities. "

A. rigmarole
B. significance
C. commiseration
D. implication