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06 投資

股票又跌了

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tony looks extremely depressed in the ofi ce his colleague elly wants to know what happened.

在辦公室里，托尼看起來很沮喪。他的同事艾莉想了解怎么回事。

elly: tony, why do you look so sad?

艾莉：托尼，你怎么看上去這么難過？

tony: i'm in pretty bad shape.

托尼：我情況很糟糕。

elly: what has happened to you? you were all right yesterday.

艾莉：怎么了？你昨天還好好的呀。

tony: didn't you read the news this morning? the overall stock market is losing money. share prices have been at an all-time low, almost crashed. what's worse, i've got all my money in stocks and shares.

托尼：你沒有看今天早上的新聞嗎? 整個股市都在跌。股價跌到了最低點，幾乎要崩盤了。更糟糕的是我把所有的錢都投在股票上了。

elly: stocks, stocks, stocks…some things never change!

艾莉：股票、股票，又是股票。江山易改，本性難移！

tony: yeah, i planned to invest in stocks to make a quick buck. but i am not always a lucky dog.

托尼：是，我原打算炒股，盡快賺點錢花，但是我并非總是個幸運兒。

elly: come on! there are no pies dropping from the sky. and you can't become warren buffett called the sage of omaha. what we have to do now is just to work harder than before.

艾莉：好了。天上不會掉餡餅的，而且你也不會成為“股神”巴菲特。我們現(xiàn)在要做的就是比以前更努力地工作。

tony: yeah, that's the truth.

托尼：是呀，那才是真理。

notes

1. lose money 虧本，虧損；賠錢

2. all-time [??:ltaim] adj. 空前的；全時工作的

3. crash [kr??] v. 撞擊，墜毀；崩潰，破產(chǎn)；n. 轟隆聲，猛撞；崩潰，垮臺；adj. 速成的

4. make a buck 掙錢

5. lucky dog 幸運兒

6. sage [seid?] n.圣人，哲人；adj. 賢明的；明智的

小貼士

關(guān)于股票跌漲的常用表達：

shoot up 猛漲

be trapped in the stock market 被套牢

shares peak at 股價達到高點

the price collapses 股價崩盤

the price falls / goes down 股票下跌

shares recover 股價回升

go into steady decline 股價穩(wěn)步下跌

share price is marginally up 股價微升

shares are up slightly by 0.9 dollar 股價上升0.9美元

speculate in stocks 炒股

pull out 撤出股市

什么是“牛市”和“熊市”？

“牛市”就是 a bull market，指的是 a situation in which share prices are rising. bull的意思是“買進股票等待價格上漲以圖謀利者；哄抬證券價格的人”。“熊市”就是 a bear market，指的是 a situation in which share prices keep falling. bear的意思是“賣空者，做空頭者，拋售股票或期貨希望造成價格下跌的人”。

這期彩票能中嗎

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as soon as eric arrives at the office, he break a piece of big news.

埃里克一到辦公室，就爆出了一條大新聞。

eric: hey, helen. did you see the big news yesterday? a lottery holder from zhejiang province may have hit 514 million yuan jackpot.

埃里克：嘿，海倫。你看到昨天的頭條新聞了嗎？一個浙江的彩民中了頭獎5.14億。

helen: really? it sounds very amazing.

海倫：真的？聽起來很令人驚訝。

eric: yeah, the news reported that he won the jackpot from two tickets on tuesday and the prize has set a new record, being the country's biggest jackpot to date. how i wish i had hit a lottery ticket!

埃里克：是呀，新聞報道說他是在周二購買的兩張彩票，中獎金額已經(jīng)刷新了中國彩票的中獎紀(jì)錄，成為歷史上最大的頭獎。我多么希望我也能中張彩票啊！

helen: i have. last week i won a lottery ticket for a prize of 5000 yuan.

海倫：我中過。上星期我中了一張彩票，獎金5000元。

eric: ah, how did you do that? why couldn't i?

埃里克：啊，你是怎么中獎的呢？為什么我總是中不了？

helen: the secret to win a lottery ticket is believing your choice and your feeling of numbers is also very important.

海倫：買彩票中獎的秘密就在于，要相信你自己的選擇，而且對號碼的感覺也是非常重要的。

eric: so if i always come across the number 9868, it's likely to win a lottery ticket with the number 9868?

埃里克：那么如果我總是遇到9868這個號碼，去買號碼為9868的彩票就很可能中獎嘍？

helen: that's what i mean. miracles happen every day. you may be on a roll.

海倫：就是那意思。奇跡每天都會發(fā)生哦。也許你會交上好運的。

notes

1. lottery ['l?t?ri] n. 彩票；碰運氣的事

2. jackpot ['d??k?p?t] n.（彩票等）頭獎，累積賭注

3. to date 迄今為止

4. miracle ['mir?kl] n. 奇跡；令人驚奇的人或事

5. on a roll 接踵而至的成功；好運連連

小貼士

在我國，lottery tickets（彩票）是為福利事業(yè)和體育發(fā)展籌措資金而開辦的，據(jù)稱，彩票得主應(yīng)交納獎金20%的所得稅。為了沾沾喜氣，兌出巨獎的lottery booth（彩票站）也人滿為患。中頭彩可以說成hit the jackpot，兌獎可以說成claim the prize。福利彩票可用welfare lottery來表達，主要用于國家的charitable causes（慈善事業(yè)）；體育彩票可用sports lottery來表達，是為籌集體育事業(yè)發(fā)展資金發(fā)行的，主要用于國家的sports causes（體育事業(yè)）。

保險不可少

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tony and kevin are talking about buying insurance in the offic.