The color may be blah, but the anecdotes inside the Beige Book are supernova awesome.

颜色可能平淡无奇，但褐皮书中的轶事却是超新星般的精彩。

It might actually sell better, even though, of course, they don't charge any money for the Beige Book.

当然，它实际上可能卖得更好，尽管他们不为褐皮书收取任何费用。

And this has been a huge focus in the Beige Book over the last six months.

这是过去六个月褐皮书的一大焦点。

So the Beige Book entry by the Kansas City Fed is about banks and how they're lending to businesses and homeowners.

因此，堪萨斯城联储的褐皮书条目是关于银行以及它们如何向企业和房主提供贷款的。

So under the metaphor of the loan diet that we got in the Beige Book, some big banks are eating less and watching what they lend out.

因此，根据我们在褐皮书中得到的贷款饮食的比喻，一些大银行正在减少饮食并注意放贷。

But what the Beige Book entry is saying this time is that banks these days are eating more salad and maybe just a little bit of white meat.

但这次褐皮书的条目所说的是，如今银行正在吃更多的沙拉，也许只是一点点白肉。

Instead of publishing an obscure government report they call the Beige Book eight times a year, they could instead put out something called the Wellfleet Sand-colored Book or the Greenspan Khaki Book.

他们不必每年发布八次被称为“褐皮书”的晦涩政府报告，而是可以推出一种名为“韦尔弗利特沙色书”或“格林斯潘卡其色书”的东西。

Each one carefully studies their local economy and brings back these little stories about what they see, puts them in the Beige Book, and we tell you which ones are the award winners.

每个人都仔细研究了当地的经济，并带回了他们看到的这些小故事，将它们放入褐皮书中，我们告诉你哪些是获奖者。