投机者

Why did politicians stand idly by while "spivs and speculators" were rigging the markets?

当市场为&贩子和投机者&所操纵时，政客们为何无所事事，袖手旁观？。。

But the most popular scapegoats are "speculators" of the more traditional sort.

但更为广泛的说法是，传统意义上的投机者是这场风波的更大责任方。

But the most popular scapegoats are "speculators" of the more traditional sort.

然而，人们普遍认为替罪羊是那些传统意义上的&投机者&。

Most volume comes from scalpers who push prices in both directions for a few pennies.

大多数的成交量来自于投机者，他们为了获利把价格向两个方向推动。

Not surprisingly, radical Republicans held firm control in every one of the new governments. Many of the new governors and state officials were carpetbaggers from outside the state. Others were southern scalawags.

毫无意外，共和党激进分子牢牢掌控着这些新建立的州政府，许多州的州长和州政府官员都是从外地来的&投机者&，其他也是与他们合作的&无赖汉&。

Southerners also had a name for their own people who cooperated with the carpetbaggers. They called them scalawags. Neither name was friendly.

南方人还给与那些投机者合作的南方人取名为无赖汉，这两个外号都很不友好。

Home resales jumped by 9.4% in September from August, the biggest rise in 26 years, as first- time buyers rushed to take advantage of a tax credit that is about to expire.

二手房市场从八月份到九月份增长了9.4%，这是26年来的最大涨幅，究其因是初次买房子的人们（为防止投机者钻空子，二次再买就没有了免税）争先恐后要利用即将到期的免税政策。

Opportunists pounce on undervalued mortgage paper and bank shares.

投机者追捧超值的抵押贷款和银行类股。

The annals of futures trading are littered with the financial remains of many well-intended, would-be speculators.

在期货交易的战场上，到处都是很想赚大钱的准投机者。

One traditional sign of a decade-plus top in a market is the entry of well-financed, but less well-informed punters.

一个传统信号预示着长达10余年的牛市即将见顶：资金充裕但缺乏信息的投机者入场。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。