It is a huge blow for BP says Faulkner. "It will be a smaller company because of this,and it will have lost a great deal of capital that it needs now to invest in future oil exploration."

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Serfs who are compelled to work the land, or in some places even slaves, well, they have no incentive, put aside the question even of capacity, to invest capital for the purpose of improving the size and quality of the their crops, their trees, their vines.

那些被强迫耕种土地的农奴,或者是那些在其他地方直接成为奴隶的人,刨除能动性因素,农场主们,没有任何理由投资钱财,去改善他们农作物,果树和葡萄,的种植规模和品质

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Mr. Carl Icahn: Well, it's hard to recommend how to invest at this time without knowing how much capital you have.

伊坎先生：嗯，在当今形势下,如果不知道你有多少资本,那就很难给你投资建议。

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That requires a theory of capital and they're going to have to invest the reserves in financial assets.

这需要借助于资本理论,并且还要将储备资金,投资于金融资产。

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