[2011.4.14] 脸皮厚，朋友少

引用 skittos 2011-4-22 16:56

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Some blame that on botched public relations.
一些人将此（即上文提到的“不公平”）归因于高盛没做好公共关系。

How much lasting damage has all this done to the firm?
上述问题对公司带来了什么长远损害？

A press that once put Goldman on a pedestal prefers today to put the boot in.
一家曾把高盛捧上高座的媒体如今却对其穷追猛打。

引用 wang_xiao_di 2011-4-22 17:03

skittos 发表于 2011-4-22 16:56
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谢谢您。这样意思就通顺很多了。
How much lasting damage has all this done to the firm? In its favour, Goldman has a remarkable record of bouncing back from adversity, whether the 1929 crash, near-fatal interest-rate bets in the 1990s or the infighting over its IPO. Friends and foes alike marvel at its skill at analysing market trends and responding quickly.
其中的In its favour,怎么翻译比较好呢？请您赐教。

引用 skittos 2011-4-22 17:08

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In its favour
对它有利的一面

引用 wang_xiao_di 2011-4-22 17:08

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我发现在翻译文章的时候代词的确定是非常重要的，不知道是指代的哪个，翻译出来的文章就会很混乱，要是把这个代词具体化的翻译出来，文章里面就清晰了很多。您对此有何看法？

引用 yannanchen 2011-4-22 19:52

its eschewal of big acquisitions
我觉得这是指避免作大的并购，而不是: 回避了被其他大公司兼并
未做研究， 只是直觉。

引用 yannanchen 2011-4-22 19:56

blessed by Goldman’s top brass.高层同意允准的

引用 yannanchen 2011-4-22 20:05

Yet it was selling them toxic mortgage securities long after it put on the “big short”
语法上似乎不通，应是：
Yet it was selling them toxic mortgage securities long after it put them on the “big short”—
这里的them=securities

引用 yannanchen 2011-4-22 20:20

本帖最后由 yannanchen 于 2011-4-22 20:33 编辑

There was, in fact, a vigorous debate within Goldman about the right level, just as there was over the firm’s overall risk levels. Angry at being reined in by its powerful risk managers, traders dubbed them the “VAR police”, a reference to the value-at-risk models they used to measure how much was on the line.
这几句译得不好。

just as there was over the firm’s overall risk levels 没有译出
=just as there was a vigorous debate over the firm’s overall risk levels

引用 yannanchen 2011-4-22 20:24

Goldman has, for instance, shown remarkably little humility for a firm that, for all its risk-management heroics, was almost swept away as the crisis deepened in 2008. (Conversely, it has had to pretend to be dumber than it really was in order to deflect criticism of the “big short”.)
for a firm 这就是指它自己
pretend to be dumber 装傻

引用 yannanchen 2011-4-22 20:31

Goldman has, for instance, shown remarkably little humility for a firm that, for all its risk-management heroics, was almost swept away as the crisis deepened in 2008. (Conversely, it has had to pretend to be dumber than it really was in order to deflect criticism of the “big short”.)
for a firm 这就是指它自己
pretend to be dumber 装傻

引用 yannanchen 2011-4-22 20:32

But they are questioning its methods as never before, as are politicians;
as are politicians 没有译出。

引用 yannanchen 2011-4-22 20:38

Most clients have stuck with it so far
容忍，没有离去

引用 yannanchen 2011-4-22 20:44

“Money and Power” is a return to form for Mr Cohan, whose last book, about the final days of Bear Stearns, lacked the epic sweep of his prize-winning history of Lazard Frères, “The Last Tycoons” (2007).
结构没搞清。 三本书。 本书Money and Power， 上一本书，关于Stearns的， 书名未给出， 前此还有一本获奖书， 书名The Last Tycoons。

引用 yannanchen 2011-4-22 20:45

drawing on reams of documents made publicly available
不是用大量篇幅， 而是援引了大量素材

引用 yannanchen 2011-4-22 20:47

Long on chutzpah, short on friends  长于计谋 疏于朋友
脸皮厚，朋友少

引用 valor 2011-4-22 22:48

本帖最后由 valor 于 2011-4-22 22:53 编辑

But some of the beliefs on which the firm was founded have been eroded, especially since it went public in 1999.

但是许多公司早期定下的信条正在被逐渐的破坏掉，特别是其于1999年公布于众之后。
Go public===上市

上市即首次公开募股（Initial Public Offerings，IPO）指企业透过证券交易所首次公开向投资者增发股票，以期募集用于企业发展资金的过程。当大量投资者认购新股时，需要以抽签形式分配股票，又称为抽新股，认购的投资者期望可以用高于认购价的价格售出。

引用 wang_xiao_di 2011-4-22 22:59

yannanchen 发表于 2011-4-22 19:52
its eschewal of big acquisitions
我觉得这是指避免作大的并购，而不是: 回避了被其他大公司兼并
未做研 ...

这里我也不是太清楚……对其历史也不是很了解呢

引用 wang_xiao_di 2011-4-22 23:04

yannanchen 发表于 2011-4-22 19:56
blessed by Goldman’s top brass.高层同意允准的

谢谢您的指点，这个我确实没有查到怎么翻译，凭感觉翻译的。
您的这个翻译能否告知出处？我去学习一下。

引用 valor 2011-4-22 23:07

本帖最后由 valor 于 2011-4-22 23:07 编辑

Most clients have stuck with it so far, perhaps fearful that alienating the firm would be bad for business
绝大多数的客户迄今为止都陷入了困境，可能是害怕疏远了这家公司会对其生意不利

大意，大多数客户目前还是与高盛保持合作/忍了下来（stuck with被迫接受；无法摆脱），可能是害怕与高盛疏远会影响自己（公司）的业务

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