robber baron

基本解釋

Even setting aside its alleged robber baron, this will be tough.
甚至不理會(huì)所謂的強(qiáng)盜式資本家，這項(xiàng)任務(wù)將是艱巨的。
Peter Krass faced the same difficulty four years ago in his life of the robber baron, but tackled it by harping on about how the steelman's philanthropy “ultimately uplifted millions of people”.
四年前，彼得?克拉斯（Peter Krass）在描述這位強(qiáng)盜大亨（robber baron）的生平之時(shí)，曾面臨同樣的困境。不過他當(dāng)時(shí)不斷重申這位鋼鐵慈善家“最終提高了數(shù)百萬人的文化素質(zhì)”，解決了這一難題。
The stereotypic Abolitionist, Robber Baron, Progressive Reformer, New Dealer is as good a place as any to begin understanding the past, but each of these inherited images needs critical adjusting.
形象刻板的廢奴主義者，19世紀(jì)被稱作“強(qiáng)盜男爵”的商人和銀行家，1890年到1920年美國進(jìn)步時(shí)代的改革者們，還有羅斯福新政，都是理解歷史的絕好起點(diǎn)，但這每一個(gè)被刻板塑造出的形象都需要批判的修正。

Stout and bearded, he could be typecast, like Gould, Morgan, and Vanderbilt, as a robber baron.
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The family office idea has been around since the 19th-century robber baron days.
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On top of the industrial backbone created during the Robber Baron era, they manufactured a new normal for the masses.
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If you refer to someone as a robber baron, you mean that they have made a very large amount of money and have been prepared to act illegally or in an immoral way in order to do so.