They were richly gilt, and their lofty prows and sterns were elaborately carved.

它们都漆成富丽的金色，高大的船头和船尾都是精雕细琢的。

They build small fires in the sterns, grilling crustaceans and boiling thin mollusc stews.

他们在船尾生火启灶，或炙烤海贝，或煮炖海鲜。

It was Bear Sterns, whose headquarters is right next to Grand Central Station, if you go into New York.

贝尔斯登公司，这家公司的总部紧挨着大中央车站，你一到纽约就能看到。

Federal officials are defending their actions to prevent the failure of Wall Street's Bear Sterns quickly selling to banking giant JPMorgan Chase.

联邦人员为他们阻止华尔街的贝尔·斯通银行迅速卖给摩根大通银行的失败辩护。

Federal officials are defending their actions to prevent the failure of Wall Street's Bear Sterns quickly selling to banking giant JP Morgan Chase.

美联储官员正在为快速出售贝尔斯登公司给银行业巨头摩根大通以挽狂澜于既倒的行为进行辩护。

Owners of dogs from the kennel she and her husband run must sign contracts requiring them to return the dogs to the Sterns if they do not work out, she said.

她说，从她们夫妇经营的犬场领狗的饲养者们都必须签署协议，承诺如果狗狗与他们合不来的话，他们必须把狗狗送回犬场。

Private equity companies have much less of a principal-agent problem than do Citicorp, Bears Sterns and other publicly traded companies because private equity companies have a concentrated ownership.

比起花旗集团和贝尔斯登，私人实体企业与委托代理问题无多少关联，这是因为其拥有集中的所有制。