银行家

A decade ago, it was fashionable for western consultants, bankers and business people to decry Japan's domestic service industry.

10年前，对于西方咨询顾问、银行家和商业人士而言，谴责日本国内的服务行业是一件时髦的事情。

As one banker puts it delicately: The growth of these new will add some new challenges.

一位银行家婉转地指出：这些新的增长将带来一些新的挑战。

Bankers report little change in loan demand in any loan category or in refinancing activity.

银行家的报告则变动不大，在贷款的需求在任何贷款类别或再融资活动。

Until recently bankers' tales of derring-do during the Asian, Latin American and Russian debt crises were kept for after-dinner drinks.

知道最近银行家们在亚洲大胆行为的谎言，拉丁美洲和俄罗斯的债务危机成为茶余饭后的谈资。

Politicians veer disconcertingly between stoking the anti-banker hysteria - an easy scapegoat for their own failures - and trying to calm things down.

政治家在助长这种狂热的反银行家情绪--这便于为他们自己的失败开脱--和设法平息事态之间左右为难。

Sir Fred Goodwin is a bad banker and a dishonourable man; he is also a dangerous distraction

弗雷德古德温伯爵是一个糟糕的银行家，一个无耻之徒；他也是一个用来转移视线的替罪羊

Among my new boyfriends are a formerly powerful hedge fund manager, scores of newly idle bankers, a few entrepreneurs, various company directors, a well-known musician, some corporate lawyers, a couple of barristers and a rather dishy builder.

在我新交的男朋友中，有一位过去权力非凡的对冲基金经理、众多新近无所事事的银行家、若干企业家、各色公司董事、一位知名音乐家、一些公司律师、几个出庭辩护律师以及一位颇具魅力的建筑商。

Indeed, bankers and consultants say, it is banking functions such as lending cash and securities that will make disintermediation of their role difficult for exchanges to accomplish.

实际上，银行家和顾问表示，正是借贷现金和证券等银行功能，使得去除他们的中间业务职能让交易所难以完成。

Disintermediation - cutting out the middle-man - is a door that can swing both ways, bankers and exchanges say, but so far it is the banks that are making the running.

银行家和交易所表示，去除中间业务——除去经纪人——是一扇可以向两边开的门，但至今领跑的是银行。

Finally, the Obama campaign suggests that the 72-year-old Mr McCain is too doddery to understand the doohickeys that modern bankers use.

最后，奥巴马的团队还暗示说麦凯恩已经72岁了，身体状况和年龄都令他不能理解现代银行家所使用的迷人眼的手法了。

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。