suddenly, because it happened so fast—

由于发生得太突然了
was for the Federal Government to begin selling all of its gold,

是联邦政府抛售所有库存的黄金
put it on the market, get the prices down

投入市场压低价格
Grant's brother-in-law--

格兰特的连襟
never appoint your brother-in-law to anything--

千万别任命连襟
Abel Corbin was a sort of personal emissary

亚伯·科尔宾算是私人信使
He assured and promised the plotters, Gould and Fisk,

他去向古尔德和费斯克这两个始作俑者保证
that he had influence on Grant

自己能影响格兰特
and that Grant would never permit the government's gold to be sold

而格兰特永远不会抛售政府手中的黄金
But he was wrong and Grant did allow it to be sold

但他错了格兰特同意了抛售黄金
And then Grant's treasury secretary, George Boutwell, got involved

格兰特的财政部长乔治·鲍特韦尔也卷入其中
The scandal finally broke open in the press,

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