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At its peak in 2008, the investment bank's asset base hit 1,629bn, 10 times its size only eight years earlier.

在2008年的巅峰时期，这家投资银行的资产基础达到 1.629万亿英镑，规模是8年前的10倍。

I pay 30 pounds a week for board and lodging (or: bed and board).

我每周的食宿开销是30英镑。

He wanted to buy a $300 watch for his wife, but he was in such a bedraggled condition that an assistant refused to serve him.

他想买一只300英镑的手表给他太太。但是由于他全身泥泞的样子，服务员拒绝接待他。

He wanted to buy a ￡300 watch for his wife, but he was in such a bedraggled condition that an assistant refused to serve him.

他想为妻子买一块300英镑的手表，但店员见他浑身泥水的样子，竟不肯接待他。

He wanted to buy a $300 wastch for his wife,but he ws in such a bedraggled condition that an assistant refused to derve him.

他想为妻子买一块300英镑的手表，但店员见他浑身泥水的样子，竟不肯接待他。

Ation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of ￡4 billion.

英国广播公司或著名的BBC（或在非正式场合中称呼其为Beeb或Auntie）公司是世界上最大的广播公司，雇员光在英国境内就超过2万6千人之众，其预算更高达40亿英镑。

It certainly doesn't feel like a 5,300lb behemoth.

这当然不觉得自己像一个庞然大物5300英镑。

To keep this behemoth breathing, the Treasury has pumped in 25.5bn of extra capital.

为保障这个庞然大物的呼吸，财政部早已填了255亿英镑的额外资本进去。

I don't doubt that he benched 385 lbs.

我不怀疑他板凳三八五英镑。

According to Dr Philip Beresford, Britain's acknowledged expert on personal wealth who compiles the Sunday

据《星期日泰晤士报》财富排行榜的统计整理人、英国公认的个人财富专家菲利浦·贝雷斯福德博士说，这可能使最富有的1000人的财富总量达到了1600亿英镑。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。