They're supposed to be like a pass through vehicle -they're owning real estate on your behalf, so they shouldn't be retaining earnings.

房地产投资信托基金应是投资中介,它代表你持有房地产,所以不应该留存利润

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that could do anything from consulting to banking to finance to recruitment agencies.

从咨询到银行业，到金融，到招聘中介机构，各行各业都有。

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Back in 1988, when we started this study, we asked realtors around the country, what is the hottest market in the United States?

回溯到1988年,那时我们刚开始这项研究,我们问遍了整个国家的房产中介,在美国最炙手可热的市场是哪里

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We want a life in which we're accomplishing things, there's agency, and the life of knowing things.

我们想要充满成就的生活，生活要有中介，我们想要能获得知识的生活。

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An intermediary is a bank, so when they pull out of banks they were disintermediating and going from banks into REITs.

这里的中介就是指银行,所以人们将资金从银行转向REITs,就是去中介化

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Although, in some sense, it wasn't really disintermediation because you could say a REIT is a different kind of intermediary between the individual and the investment.

某种意义上这不是真正的去中介化,因为你也可以说REITs是另一种,个人投资中介

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So, a lot of people switched from savings accounts to REITs -that's called disintermediation.

于是很多人把钱从储蓄账户转向REITs,这被称为去中介化

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