These are broker-dealers some of them are international like BNP Paribas is one of them--it's French.

它们都是经纪自营商,其中一些是国际的,比如巴黎国民银行是法国的。

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Despite all of the--Mitterrand's plans for decentralization, and the creation of regional councils, basically France remains the most centralized state in Western Europe, and the role of Paris in French life does not have an equivalent in other European countries.

尽管密特朗计划在法国实施,去中央集权化并创立地方议会,法国基本上还是西欧,中央集权化程度最高的国家,巴黎在法国的地位是欧洲其它国家的城市,所不能比拟的

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The cabinet makers were always terribly important in the French Revolution, and they still are, and there are still-- all the stores, or most of the stores on one particular street in Paris near the Bastille are still furniture stores.

做橱柜的工人在法国革命的时期,尤其重要,当然,现在也是,可以这么说,直到如今,在巴黎巴士底狱附近的一条街上,所有的商铺,或者说大部分的商铺,仍然是家具店

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