One quarter of a typical Wall Street bonus still translates into hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it's that heady amount that makes New York's luxury retailers so ecstatic. At this point, with all of the big banks having repaid their bailout money, the government has little oversight or recourse over the way they award bonuses. Regulators and politicians have succeeded in publicly shaming the banks into doling out more compensation in company stock rather than cash, but that still leaves bankers arguably well off. If a banker receives a $3 million bonus this year, Olsen says, he or she may receive $2.85 million of that in company stock. "Nobody's crying for the bankers," Olsen says. "But it doesn't go a long way after you pay your private-school tuition."
This slice of the bonus pie is what New York real estate agents, art dealers, luxury travel agents, boat brokers, and car dealers will be fighting over this winter and spring. Whoever succeeds in extracting that money will have to do so with discretion. Bankers know well enough not to flaunt their bonuses, given the public anger toward the financial sector and the country's persistently high unemployment rate. "The show-me piece of jewelry and show-me car has gone very out of style," Olsen says. "It isn't that the money isn't there. It's just that flashiness is pooh-poohed." Flashiness or understatedness—the style of the wealthy can always shift. New York's luxury market and the folks who live off it don't care, as long as Wall Street's in a buying mood.
词句笔记：
trickle：流淌，细流缓缓流动，慢慢移动
some of the cash will trickle down through the city's economy：一些资金会缓慢进入这个城市的经济体制中去
relate to sth.:理解
replenish：补充
replenish their cash cushion：增加收入
beef up：加强
big-ticket：昂贵的
high-end：高端的
high-end purchase：奢侈消费
One quarter of a typical Wall Street bonus still translates into hundreds of thousands of dollars：
典型的华尔街奖金的四分之一仍然以十几万的现金形式发放。
flaunt：vt. 炫耀
show-me：需要证明的
show-me piece of jewelry：让人怀疑真伪的珠宝
