Rather than benefiting from company profits the way that stock holders do, bond holders receive a fixed rate of return - a percentage of the bond's original offering price.

债券持有者不像股票持有者从公司的盈利中分红获利，而是以债券发行价格的一定百分比的固定回报率来获利。

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This is the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Everything. Home prices, the stock market, G.D.P., corporate profits, employment: they're all a fraction of what they once were.

这是一个一切都缩水的时代，房地产价格，股票市场，GDP，公司利润，就业率：这些通通都变成了曾经的一小部分。

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Because of these spectacular results, money, talent and energy are converging in a maximum effort for the achievement of large and quick stock market profits.

由于这些惊人的业绩，金钱、人才、精力都以最大的程度汇集到一起，来取得大量而迅速的股票市场收益。

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The bad news is that even when all of the financial-crisis overhang subsides and the economy is thriving, it is unlikely that banks will be able to engage in the level of leverage that created outsize profits and stock valuations of the bubble days.

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Apple shares are dropped for the third consecutive session Monday, as investors continue to take some of the fat profits the stock has generated in 2012.

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Most senior traders of this type were paid a percentage of the profits they made, with deferred compensation usually comprising a mix of cash and stock paid out over three years.

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