As the finance company started to fail a few opportunists managed to make more money out of it.信贷公司开始走下坡路时，一些投机分子乘势捞了一笔。He was portrayed in the press as a gold digger and adventurer.报纸把他描述成一个淘金者和投机分子。He had come to Washington, not as a common carpetbagger, but a man well known.他来到了华盛顿，不是作为一个普通的北方投机分子，而是作为一个名人。