robber baron

基本解释

Even setting aside its alleged robber baron, this will be tough.
甚至不理会所谓的强盗式资本家，这项任务将是艰巨的。
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）在描述这位强盗大亨（robber baron）的生平之时，曾面临同样的困境。不过他当时不断重申这位钢铁慈善家“最终提高了数百万人的文化素质”，解决了这一难题。
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.
形象刻板的废奴主义者，19世纪被称作“强盗男爵”的商人和银行家，1890年到1920年美国进步时代的改革者们，还有罗斯福新政，都是理解历史的绝好起点，但这每一个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.