The nineteenth century bankers will become much more important

19世纪的银行家会变得更举足轻重
for perfectly obvious reasons.

这是显而易见的
These are big wholesale merchants

大批发商们
who are making bundles shipping things from here to there.

将成批的货物通过航船运送到各地
You won't yet find lawyers and people like that.

律师之类的人不可能做到这点
What also makes them the high bourgeoisie or the big bourgeoisie,

还有一个原因让他们成为高级中产阶级
a small percentage,

只是一小部分人
it doesn't really matter where this line goes,

分界线在哪里并没多大关系
is that they have access to political power.

那就是他们掌控有政治权利
Even if they're in Prussia, a place that's dominated by the nobles

即使他们在被贵族控制的普鲁士王国也一样
who are called the Junkers,

这些贵族被称为"容克"
as most of you know, they will still have access

正如你们所知他们还可以凭借其财产而