SHANGHAI, China's financial centre, does not make it easy on outsiders wishing to buy homes.

上海是中国的金融中心，对于外来打工者来说，想在这里安家置业绝对不是一件容易的事。

One of the mightiest clusters of all is London, which hosts the globe's largest international financial centre.

其中最强大的集群之一是伦敦，拥有全球最大的国际金融中心。

The City of London has for the most part thrived as Europe's most open financial centre.

作为欧洲最为开放的金融中心，伦敦得到了长足的发展。

New bank operations carry out work no different from that which they would have done in Mumbai, India's financial centre.

新的银行业务所从事的工作与它们在印度金融中心孟买所做的工作没有什么不同。

London is by many measures the world's biggest financial centre, and weakening it is in nobody's interest-least of all Britain's.

从许多方面说，伦敦都是世界上最大的金融中心，削弱其地位不符合任何人的利益，尤其不符合英国的利益。

Cairo and Johannesburg would probably be the largest financial centres of the United Africa and serve very important roles as well.

开罗和约翰尼斯堡可能会成为非洲国最大的金融中心，并扮演非常重要的角色。

But the City can compete successfully with other financial centres only if Britain has the right policies on regulation, tax and immigration.

但要想让金融城成功地与其他金融中心竞争，英国就必须有监管、税收和移民的正确政策。

When cheap air travel meant these holiday towns were abandoned, most fell into disrepair. But Douglas reinvented itself as an off-shore financial centre.

当廉价的航空旅行使这些假日城市被遗弃时，大部分城市都陷入绝望。但是道格拉斯将自己重新打造成了一座离岸金融中心。

In the battle between global financial centres, the city is increasingly a power with no equal.

在全球金融中心的争夺战中，这座​​城市日益成为一股势不可挡的力量。

And there is bound to be some drift in dealmaking towards the emerging world, whose governments are trying to develop their own financial centres.

同时也会有一些交易撮合业务流失到新兴世界中，因为那里的各国政府正试图发展它们自己的金融中心。

Fifty years ago, a tax to discourage Americans from investing in foreign securities spawned the Eurobond market and launched London's rise as a financial centre.

50年前颁布的那项税法，阻止了美国人民投资孕育了欧洲债券市场的外国债券，将崛起的伦敦设为国际金融中心。

The City of London has long welcomed financial institutions from all over the world, which is why it is the biggest and most successful financial centre in Europe.

长期以来，伦敦金融城一直欢迎全世界的金融机构，这就是为什么它是欧洲最大的、最成功的金融中心。

Since the early 2000s, major financial centres like London, Paris, Moscow, Istanbul and Frankfurt have seen several skyscrapers rise as demand for commercial space in their centres has increased.

自 21 世纪初以来，随着对商业空间的需求不断增加，伦敦、巴黎、莫斯科、伊斯坦布尔和法兰克福等主要金融中心纷纷兴建多座摩天大楼。

The BBC correspondent in Bern says that China has hinted it would also make Switzerland its financial centre of choice if Beijing allows off-shore trading of its currency, the yuan.

BBC驻伯尔尼记者说，如果北京允许其人民币进行离岸交易，中国暗示将把瑞士作为其财政中心的入选行列。

Each decision to locate a new trading desk somewhere else compounds over time to a loss of the critical mass that has sustained the City as a leading financial centre.

在其他地方设立交易平台的每一个决定都会减损金融城的交易数额，随着时间的推移，这些减损的叠加会让伦敦丧失维持其金融中心老大地位的临界规模。

The 50% tax rate, introduced by the previous Labour government in 2010, brings in little money and has made London the most taxed out of ten financial centres for high net-worth individuals.

上届工党政府在2010年引入的50%税率没有带来多少财政收入，却让伦敦成了十大金融中心中对高收入者征税最高的城市。