1·Warren Buffett, the good natured financier, became a homespun folk hero, without the tools and overalls.
生性善良的金融家沃伦•巴菲特变成了一个朴实的民间英雄,没有工具和工作服。
2·At mid-century, an Antwerp financier only slightly exaggerated when he claimed, "One can no more trade without bills of an exchange than sail without water."
在这个世纪中叶,一位安特卫普的金融家略微夸张地说道:“没有汇票就不能交易,正如没有水就不能航行一样。”
3·Meanwhile, I know a senior financier, an ex-chair of a FTSE company, who still has his secretary print out his e-mails for him to read so he can then dictate replies for her to e-mail back.
与此同时我了解到,一位资深的金融家、富时指数(FTSE)成份股公司的前董事长,仍旧让秘书把发给他的邮件打印出来供其阅读——然后他向秘书口述回复邮件的内容。
4·Unfortunately, the Open Society Institute, founded by George Soros, a financier and philanthropist, had some rather mixed news on that front this week.
不妙的是,本周,金融家、慈善家乔治·索罗斯建立的公开社会研究院在这方面给出了相当复杂的信息。
5·Federal regulators in the United States have charged the financier and cricket impresario, Allen Stanford, with what they described as massive fraud.
联邦监管机构在美国已落案起诉金融家和板球经理,艾伦斯坦福大学,与他们称之为大规模舞弊。