即使在19世纪50年代他是全国知名人物时,他也像个三流经纪行的职员,也许还会把一些可能是有标记证明的纸片挂在他的口袋外面或插在他帽子里。
Even when he was nationally famous in the 1850s he resembled a clerk in a third-rate brokerage house, with slips of paper—marked-up proofs perhaps—hanging out of his pockets or stuck in his hat.
他在一家保险经纪行工作。
保险代理机构和经纪行为保险公司销售保险单。
Insurance agencies and brokerages sell insurance policies for the carriers.
and then it looked like the people who had money and shares in them would lose.
看起来好像在该经纪行,存有现金和股票的公众要遭受损失了
This was motivated by a spectacular failure of a brokerage, Goodbody & Co., in 1970.
一家证券经纪行的倒闭改变了这一状况,古德巴迪公司,于1970年倒闭
In other words, if you had an account at a brokerage and you thought you had a hundred shares of IBM and now the broker is going bankrupt -the broker won't answer your email anymore and he's just gone you go to SIPC and say, I had these hundred shares.
换句话说,如果你在一家经纪公司,设有账户,其中有IBM的100股股份,现在经纪行破产了,经纪行不再回复你的邮件,消失了,你告诉证券投资者保护公司,我有100股IBM的股票
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