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1. In late 2007 Buttonwood ventured to forecast that both commercial property and eastern European economies would be a source of trouble in 2008.

2007年末本专栏大胆预测商用物业和东欧经济均会成为08年经济问题的根源。

2. Three months ago Buttonwood pointed to three portents that would suggest investors should prepare for the worst.

三个月前，Buttonwood（经济政策栏）指出建议投资人做好最坏打算三种征兆。

3. At Wall Street's big bang more than 200 years ago, when financiers first gathered under a buttonwood tree in Manhattan to buy and sell, the basics for creating wealth on good credit were established.

两百多年之前，金融家们第一次聚集在曼哈顿一棵大梧桐树下，华尔街应运而生。当时买卖的基础是彼此早已确立的良好信用，并以此创造价值。

4. On May 17, 1792, these men placed their signatures on the Buttonwood Agreement, and the New York Stock Exchange [as it was later known] was born.

关于1792年5月17日，这些人将其签字的梧桐树协定，并在纽约证券交易所[因为它是后称为]诞生了。

5. More than 200 years after it was born at the base of a buttonwood tree, Wall Street as we have known it is ceasing to exist.

在一棵梧桐树下诞生了200多年后，我们所熟知的华尔街正在逐渐消亡。

6. It was struck when commodity prices were near their trough and looks too generous now that they have recovered somewhat (see Buttonwood).

在商品价格接近谷底时达成了该协议，而在价格已有所反弹的当下，该协议看起来相当“大方”（对中国铝业来说）。

7. In old New York, two dozen stockbrokers and merchants adopted the habit of meeting each other under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street to conduct business.

在旧纽约，24个股票经纪人以及商人更改了在华尔街的梧桐树下会面交易的习惯，

8. The one forecast Buttonwood can safely make for 2008 is that the consensus will prove to be wrong.

对于2008年，梧桐树下可以确定的一个预测是多数人的看法将会被证明是错误的。

9. Nevertheless, Buttonwood urges extreme caution in relying on their claims.

尽管这样，Buttonwood力劝人们在信赖他们的论调时极端小心。

10. Buttonwood will take the more modest approach of highlighting a couple of areas that could burst out of the background to grab next year's headlines.

梧桐树下将以更适度的方式强调一些地区，它们可能突然成为抢占明年标题的背景。

11. Experience has taught Buttonwood that chartists defend their territory with an almost religious zeal.

而经验告诉Buttonwood，这些图表分析师近乎宗教狂热般地防守着他们的领地。

12. The exchange dates back to 1792 when a group of stockbrokers gathered under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street in New York City to make some rules about how buying and selling was to be done.

这种交易的历史可追溯到1792年，那一年有一群经纪人聚集在纽约华尔街一棵梧桐树下，为股票的买卖订立一些规则。

13. Buttonwood would like to suggest two tried-and-trusted canaries for this particular coalmine.

金融人士愿意为这个特别的市场建议两个屡试不爽的预警指标。