常见短语

looky-loos：打酱油的

People who just come to look.

 

bet-the-company: 孤注一掷

Cath knew that NAM-EA was a bet-the-company decision for MedAMore.

 

navel-gazing: 纸上谈兵

I think Java developers should stay away from too much navel-gazing.

 

bulge bracket:(美国纽约)华尔街投资银行领导集团

美国金融业一般把投资银行按照规模分为三类，即大型(bulge bracket)，中型(Middle Market)和小型(Boutique)

Before the emergence of China and India as economic powerhouses, bulge bracket investment banks focused their presence in the Asia-Pac region in Hong Kong and Japan.

 

domicile：

n. 1. （尤指正式或法律意义的）住处，住所，定居地 2. 永久住处

vt.1. 定居

 

Where is your domicile place?你的籍贯是哪里？

report to the local authorities for change of domicile迁户口

U.S. domiciled equity funds had net outflows of $2.4 billion, a sharp increase over the $268 million in net redemptions the prior week.

 

source:

消息灵通人士

A merger between NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq OMX would be strategically unattractive, and any bid would face "insurmountable antitrust problems," asource close to the Big Board said.

 

nose out:

以微弱的优势打败对手，险胜

 

round out the top five:

前五位中的其它几位。。。

At the end of 2010, Morgan Stanley had nosed out JP Morgan for top spot, taking home $1.47 billion in fees,....Rounding out the top fivewas Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank.

 

bilingual:

 

adj.

1. 两种语言的;能说两种语言的;用两种语言（写）的

n.

1. 能说两种语言的人

Mac is bilingual in Mandarin and English.

 

arch-rival:

夙敌，劲敌，主要竞争对手

Bank of China beats arch-rivals such as ICBC and Citic Securities to take home China's best domestic debt house trophy this year.

 

automatic choice:

容易的选择

China's best equity house for the second year in a row is CICC. But is was far from anautomatic choice, with the investment bank facing fierce competition from an increasingly vigorous Citic Securities during our polling period.

 

Muddy waters make it easy to catch fish.

浑水摸鱼

 

presence:

(在商业活动中)某公司在某地方有"presence"，是泛指在那里有市场或业务

A leading European Bank with a strong presence in Asia Pacific region...

 

go to extraordinary(great, any) lengths:

竭尽全力，不惜代价，尽全力

Your colleagues at McKinsey will go to extraordinay lengths to ensure your success.

 

zero-sum:

零和

Alpha investing is a zero-sum game.

 

crying in his beer:

借酒消愁

Bill Gross, the manager of the world's largest bond fund, feels like "crying in his beer" for having bet so heavily against U.S. govement-related debt earlier this year.

at the discretion of sb/sth:

由某人或某事决定

Execute the given command at some time in the future. The command may execute in a new thread, in a pooled thread, or in the calling thread,at the discretion of the Executor implementation.

by and large: 

总的来说，大体而言

By and large, Google Goggles returns pretty good results within seconds.

be easier said than done:

说起来容易做起来难

And this is a time in the company where you just have to aspire with each hire to get an A or A plus person, and it'seasier said than done.

 

moat

n.壕沟，护城河v.挖壕围绕A fire on the city gate brings disaster to the fish in the moat.城门失火，殃及池鱼。
The first thing people learn from Warren, of course, is how to think about investing. That’s natural , given his amazing track record. Unfortunately, that’s where a lot of people stop, and they miss  out on the fact that he has a whole framework for business thinking that is very powerful. For example, he talks about looking for a company’smoat—its competitive advantage—and whether the moat is shrinking or growing.