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。

In 1995 CCB and Morgan Stanley, another Wall Street bank, set up CICC; in 2004 Goldman was allowed to establish the first foreign securities joint venture.

1995年，中国建设银行和另一家华尔街银行摩根士丹利成立了中金公司；2004年，高盛获准成立了中国第一家外国合资证券公司。

" Come in, Monsieur Lupin, come in, " cried Madame Imbert, " are you not at home here? We want your advice. What bonds should we sell? The foreign securities or the government annuities" ?

“进来，卢平先生，进来，” 因贝特夫人喊道， “你不在家吗？我们需要你的建议。我们应该卖什么债券？外国证券还是政府年金” ？

And why was a country that is by far the most militarily advanced country in the Middle East, that invests so much in its own both foreign and domestic security, could have handled this so badly?

为什么一个迄今为止中东军事最先进的国家，在自己的外交和国内安全方面投入如此之多，却能处理得如此糟糕？