结果，交易员们选择太大而不能倒的银行而非中等规模机构作为短期交易的对手方，这导致大银行交易规模急剧膨胀，利润也水涨船高。
As a result, traders choose too-big-to-fail banks, rather than mid-size institutions, as counter-parties for their short-term trades, causing the large banks’ trading books – and, hence, their profits – to surge.