银行家

I started the year out in the School of Foreign Service within Georgetown, which has a reputation of being the home to cutthroat competition and investment banker wannabees.

我开始是在乔治城大学外交事务学院学习。学院以令人窒息的竞争和梦想成为投资银行家的狂热分子而著称。

What are a banker's favorite vowels?

银行家最喜欢的元音是什么？

What are a banker's favourite vowels?

银行家最喜欢的元音是什么？

Today, that model has warped into self-parody: many of the banks' assets are unsellable even as they have to return to the market each day to ask for lenders to vote on their survival.

现在这一模式已经多半成了笑话：就算银行家每天让贷方决定银行生死，银行的资产却无法出售。

A 'CMO,' on the other hand, sounds short, cool, snappy and familiar, like a fast-food restaurant, a sports statistic, a videogame, a type of sneaker, a new-model car. You would never guess that by late 2008, some CMOs were worth only a tiny fraction of the original prices at which Wall Street foisted them onto 'sophisticated investors.

实际上，投资银行家们在给产品命名时付出了巨大的精力和努力，为的就是让这些名字可以被简写为引人注目的&华尔街缩拼词&──因为华尔街深知，一个流畅的名字会自然而然地让投资者在面对那些他们根本无从知晓的风险时变得更加轻松自在。

Katherine's father used to be a successful investment banker. In 1933, he bought a failing newspaper, the Washington Post.

凯瑟琳的父亲曾是一位成功的投资银行家。1933年，他买了一个失败的报纸，《华盛顿邮报》。

Of course, that means ninety-eight percent of homes are not being reclaimed by lenders.

但这仍然是自1979年抵押银行家协会有记录来利息最高的一次。

Built in 1910, the club and its hallmark 110-foot Long Bar hosted bankers and taipans. In 1941, the Japanese Navy commandeered it. With Japan's 1945 defeat, the club's battered elite returned to discover shortened legs on billiard tables.

上海总会建成于1910年，110英尺长的标志性长廊酒吧接待过众多银行家和大班。1941年，日本海军占领了这里。1945年日本战败后，历经劫难的精英们回到这里，发现台球桌的桌腿都被锯短了。

The debate about bankers' bonuses has been stoked in recent weeks, first by the supertaxes announced in the UK and France, levied on bonus pools, then by the announcement last week of bumper Wall Street profits from the likes of Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase.

关于银行家奖金的争论最近几周非常火热，首先引发争论的是英国、法国开征的奖金附加税，然后是上周高盛、摩根大通等华尔街银行宣布的丰厚利润。

Randomly chosen numbers, usually from a pool of up to 75 or 90, are called out by a "banker." The first player to achieve a line in which all of the numbers have been called shouts "bingo" or "house" and collects the entire stake money, usually minus a small, specified percentage.

随机挑选的号码，通常是由一组达到75或90，出动的&银行家&最早的球员达到了线，所有的号码被称为哭喊着：&啊&或&府&，并收集了全部股权款项，通常在零下一小，特定百分比。

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。