银行家

Yet despite much speechifying from banker-bashing politicians, such views do not seem to have taken hold.

然而尽管攻讦银行家的政客们长篇大论，这种观点似乎并未占主导地位。

Nor is it just bankers and portfolio investors who are becoming stingier with their cash.

对投资变得更趋谨慎的不仅仅是银行家和证券投资者。

Virtually every banker was suckered by the credit and housing bubble.

事实上每个银行家都在信贷危机和房产泡沫中受骗上当。

With the nation's financial system teetering on a cliff.

银行家们过度冒险是金融危机的至关重要原因在历史上也有类似情况。

Our acquisitions usually develop in the same way. At other companies, executives may devote themselves to pursuing acquisition possibilities with investment bankers, utilizing an auction process that has become standardized. In this exercise the bankers prepare a "book" that makes me think of the Superman comics of my youth. In the Wall Street version, a formerly mild-mannered company emerges from the investment banker's phone booth able to leap over competitors in a single bound and with earnings moving faster than a speeding bullet. Titillated by the book's description of the acquiree's powers, acquisition-hungry CEOs -- Lois Lanes all, beneath their cool exteriors -- promptly swoon.

我们的购并行动发生的形态一向很类似，在别的公司，高阶主管通常亲自与投资银行家一起寻求可能的购并机会，所运用的拍卖程序相当制式化，在过程中银行业者准备的帐册让我想到童年时代读到的&超人&漫画，只不过在华尔街版，换成一家本来平淡无奇的公司进到了银行业者特地准备的电话亭后，摇身一变成了一跃升天，盈余成长飞快的超人，而抵挡不住卖方帐册所叙述的神力，购并案饥渴成痴的买方，就像是具有冷艳外表的露易丝，立刻融化在其膝下。

Although politicians made the mistakes that allowed Sir Fred to get away with his cash, the row sustains the comfortable fiction that the government's sensible policies were traduced by greedy bankers.

尽管是政客们错误地让弗雷德爵士带走了钱，但争论的结果反倒是这样的：政府的政策是切合实际的，是贪婪的银行家在诽谤。

Although politicians made the mistakes that allowed Sir Fred to get away with his cash, the row sustains the comfortable fiction that the government's sensible policies were traduced by greedy bankers.

尽管政客们的过失让弗雷德爵士能带走钞票，但这样的争吵中断了这样的美梦：政府英明的政策被贪婪的银行家诽谤。

Although politicians made the mistakes that allowed Sir Fred to get away with his cash, the row sustains the comfortable fiction that the government's sensible policies were traduced by greedy bankers.

虽然政治家们错误地让弗雷德爵士带走了钱，但争论维持着政府明智之举都被贪婪的银行家破坏了的美妙幻象。

"Men accustomed to struggling for survival against the elements and Indian were bewildered by politicians, bankers and business-men, and unhorsed by fences, laws and alien taboos."

习惯于自然力和印第安人作斗争求生存的西部生活，被政客、银行家和商人搞乱了，围起来的藩蓠，颁布的法律和外来的戒律使得他们不再能骑马驰骋。

Men accustomed to struggling for survival against the elements and Indians were bewildered by politicians, bankers and businessmen, and unhorsed by fences, laws and alien taboos.

习惯与大自然和印第安人作斗争以求生存的拓荒者被政客、银行家和商人搞得晕头转向，最后被圈地、法律和外来的清规戒律所击败。

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。