他们正在谈论有关西方银行的历史。

They are talking about the history of banking in the west.

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但是银行的历史通常只追溯到,大约数百年前

The history of banking often goes back only a matter of hundreds of years.

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不以商业利润目的，迎来的多半是巨额亏损而不会是统治世界：可以研究一下法国的里昂信贷和中国国有银行的历史。

Running a business non-commercially is a recipe for huge losses rather than world domination: look at the history of France's Crédit Lyonnais or China's state-owned banks.

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They're comparable to one of the biggest old line investment banks in New York.

足以和纽约历史最悠久的,投资银行相提并论

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The history of banking often goes back only a matter of hundreds of years.

但是银行的历史通常只追溯到,大约数百年前

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Some banks however are very new; the European Central Bank which issues the Euro currency was founded in 1998 so it's only ten years old.

然而，一些银行很年轻；,发行欧元的,欧洲中央银行,成立于1998年，所以它才有十年的历史。

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