Bear Stearns was nowhere near as central to the market's current difficulties.

It bought Bear Stearns for more than two-billion dollars earlier this year.

今年早些时候，摩根大通以二十多亿美元的价格收购了贝尔斯登公司。

For Bear Stearns, the venture will raise its limited profile in Asia.

对贝尔斯登来说，合资公司将提升其在亚洲有限的影响力。

It was only after the Fed brokered the sale of Bear Stearns, another famed Wall Street investment bank, to JPMorgan Chase in mid-March 2008 that Thain says he became alarmed.

塞恩说，直到2008年3月中旬美联储（fed）出面斡旋，促成摩根大通（jpmorgan chase）收购另一家华尔街著名投行贝尔斯登（bear stearns）之后，他才警惕起来。

Bear employs 14000 globally, including 1400 in London and 150 in Dublin, Paris and Frankfurt.

贝尔斯登在全球有1.4万名雇员，其中在伦敦有1400人，在都柏林、巴黎和法兰克福有150人。

Bear will invest$ 1bn in securities that convert into a 2 per cent stake in Citic over six years.

贝尔斯登将投资10亿美元购入中信发行的证券，可在未来6年内转换为中信证券2%的股份。

However, experts say the new rules might have accelerated the demise of bear, Lehman and AIG by removing legal obstacles for banks and hedge funds that wanted to close positions and demand extra collateral from the three companies.

然而专家称，新规定也许加速了贝尔斯登、雷曼和aig的垮台，因为对于希望与这三家机构解除头寸并要求它们提供额外抵押品的银行和对冲基金而言，新规定移除了相关法律障碍。

He was eating dinner with his wife and children at their suburban home when Bear's CEO called with terrible news.

当贝尔斯登首席执行长施瓦茨再次来电时，他正与妻子和孩子们在郊区的家中吃晚饭。

He has also shown no intention of stepping aside and leaving decisions about Bear's future to one of its two co-presidents.

他也没有显示出要置身事外、将贝尔斯登的未来交给两个联席总裁的意愿。

But when the crisis erupted at Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers in 2008, the importance of the repo market became clear.

但当2008年贝尔斯登（bear stearns）和雷曼兄弟爆发危机时，回购市场的重要性已变得很明显。

I have worked at Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns and UBS, she says, but I have to point out that their problems were nothing to do with me.

我曾在美林（Merrill Lynch）、贝尔斯登（Bear Stearns）和瑞银工作过，她说，但我必须指出，它们的问题与我无关。

An important distinction between Lehman and bear is that, while bear failed suddenly, Lehman Brothers has been struggling for months.

雷曼与贝尔斯登之间的重要区别是：贝尔斯登是突然失败的，而雷曼兄弟挣扎了好几个月。

Mine is not a judgment on whether the Fed was right to rescue Bear Stearns from bankruptcy.

我不是要评判美联储拯救贝尔斯登脱离破产境地是否正确。

So Lehman got more support than Bear.

因此，雷曼兄弟获得的支持要比贝尔斯登更多。

They've been there for a long time. They are proud and should be proud.

我想贝尔斯登公司有很多很伟大的人，他们在自己的岗位上已经做了很久，他们感到很骄傲，也应该感到骄傲。

The rough-edged, cigar-smoking Bear Stearns chief executive had recently become a paper billionaire as shares in his investment bank remained near their record high of$ 171.51 at the start of last year.

在那之前，贝尔斯登（Bear Stearns）这位棱角粗糙、叼着雪茄的首席执行官刚刚成为纸面上的亿万富翁，因为去年年初的时候，他所在投资银行的股价保持在171.51美元的历史高位附近。

The gruff, cigar-chomping Mr Cayne inquired, according to an anecdote shared at a recent Bear Stearns analyst conference.

这位语气粗暴、咬着雪茄的凯恩先生如是问道。贝尔斯登近期一次分析会议上流传着这件轶事。

Though still operating in all of those except Bear Stearns ( which closed in March), the company now must look to its recent expansion in other regions and industries for growth, said Tom Maraday, the senior vice president. ( Google is one new client.)

高级副总裁汤姆·麦拉戴表示，除了今年3月宣布倒闭的贝尔斯登外，其他账户仍处于运作中，近期公司的增长主要依靠将业务扩展到其他地区和行业（Google是他们的新客户之一）。

The critical point is that, like Bear Stearns, Lehman was just an extreme case of a general phenomenon.

关键在于，雷曼与贝尔斯登一样，只是普遍现象的一个极端案例。

Bear Stearns provided just that: a large franchise with a promising future.

贝尔斯登恰好可以提供这一业务：拥有大好未来的大额特许业务。

In contrast to the Bear Stearns case, the jury this time found the good sense to see through this.

与贝尔斯登案不同，这次陪审团认为绝不应被表象所蒙蔽。