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。

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。

They were from fifty to one hundred yards long, and they gradually tapered from a nine-log breadth at their sterns, to a three-log breadth at their bow-ends.

它们的长度由100码逐渐缩为50码，由尾部9根原木的宽度缩小到头部3根的宽度。

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。