银行家

It was all the bankers' fault and we wanted to skin them alive.

一切都是银行家的错，我们恨不得将他们生吞活剥。

Bankers themselves are fuzzy about explaining their trading profits, bandying about phrases such as "deploying our intellectual capital".

银行家们自己也搞不清如何解释他们的营业利润，老是重复着像&配置我们的智力资本&这样的话。

Bankers have been waiting to see if Abu Dhabi, the wealthy capital that bankrolls the central bank and is key to Dubai's financial well-being, will intervene.

银行家们一直在观望阿布扎比是否会出手干预。这个富裕的首都是阿联酋央行的资金提供者，同时也是保障迪拜金融健康的关键因素。

"Unless your business model depends on bilking people, there is little to fear from these new rules," said Mr Obama, drawing applause from a crowd that included plenty of trade unionists as well as bankers.

&除非你的商业模式依赖于骗人，否则对这些新规则没什么可担心的，&奥巴马说。他的话赢得了听众的掌声，这些听众包括许多工会成员和银行家。

The White House, with a hyperactivity reminiscent of its push for health-care reform, has been encouraging speedy compromise and action."Unless your business model depends on bilking people, there is little to fear from these new rules," Barack Obama told bankers in a speech delivered in New York on April 22nd.

白宫希望两党能就金融改革尽快做出妥协并立即实施新法案，一如医疗改革的雷厉风行。4月22日奥巴马在纽约发表演讲时告诉银行家们，&除非你是以蒙骗大众为生，否则对于新法案你无须畏惧。&

As the political benefit of being tough on bankers may never be greater than now, there is a real risk of future Congresses browbeating regulators out of using the tools it is now handing out.

目前，通过严苛对待银行家而获得的政治利益可能达到了登峰造极的水平，在这种情况下，存在一种切实的风险：未来，国会可能会逼迫监管机构废除目前出台的监管工具。

Neither side is budging an inch; but the involvement of the pragmatic Hank Paulson, the banker turned treasury secretary, is a good sign.

双方都寸步不让，但是奉行务实主义的汉克·保尔森的加盟——从银行家摇身一变为美国新任财长，是一个好兆头。

"Crazier things have been done than this," the banker said.

&有比这更疯狂的事情，&这位银行家说。

Foreign bankers decamped, leaving behind many three- and four-bedroom apartments, popular with expatriates, which have been vacant for months.

外国银行家纷纷搬家，留下很多三四个卧室的大房子。这类房源以前深受外派人员的青睐，如今却会空置好几个月。

The crisis has restored the legitimacy of the state: bankers have been dethroned, Alan Greenspan defrocked and economists exposed.

这场危机恢复了政府角色的正当性：银行家遭到唾弃，艾伦·格林斯潘被赶下神坛，经济学家处境难堪。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。