The experience of British business in Iran between the 1860’s and the 1970’s is one example of the changing Line importance of British enterprise in Asia (5) as a whole. Before 1914 British busi- ness established and dominated Iran’s modern industrial and financial sector; in the 1920’s this domination began to wane; by the 1960’s British enterprise (10) was of little importance in the Iranian economy. While in Japan and India the decline of British business was primarily a function of the rise of strong indige- nous business groups, in Iran, by (15) contrast, the government played a large role in both challenging British commercial interests and stimulating locally owned enterprise. Periodic surges of intense Iranian economic (20) nationalism must be understood partly as a reaction to the close relations between British business in Iran and the British government. In retrospect, it is possible to see the uneasy and (25) ambiguous nature of this relationship. It is true that the British Imperial Bank in Iran was never entirely a tool of the British government, and that the Anglo- Iranian Oil Company did not take its (30) orders from the British government, despite the 51 percent government shareholding. However, the relationship between British business and the British government was sufficiently close that (35) many Iranians understandably viewed the oil company and the bank as sym- bols of a British imperialist policy. 这篇文章的题都做对了~可是又是government又是business的,感觉关系乱七八糟的...... 哪位NN能帮我翻译一下我标出来的两个句子~~ 谢谢谢谢~~~~    |