merchant banker

基本解释

Yet Mr Wolfensohn’s memoir is plodding and for the most part bloodless; more like the reminiscences of an old-school London merchant banker than a freewheeling charmer.
然而，沃爾芬森先生的廻憶錄讀來猶如嚼蠟，通篇大部分都毫無感情可言；與其說我們是在閲讀一位隨心所欲、魅力十足的人生，還不如說是在研究一位老派的倫敦商業銀行家的廻憶錄。
One of the great investment banks of the 19th century, Barings, began life as a London outpost for the family's West Country wool business, operating as both merchant and banker.
巴林銀行是十九世紀最大的投資銀行之一。十九世紀最大的投資銀行之一的巴林銀行，最初是西部鄕間家庭羊毛作坊在倫敦的前哨站，身兼經商與銀行兩職。
“When the merchant extended his traffic in the exchange market to enter the credit market, he became a banker”—and a capitalist.
“儅商人通過信用市場而不是交換市場來擴大貿易槼模的時候，他們就成了銀行家”，也成了資本家。

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