You can call your broker and say, I'd like to short stock number one and what the broker will do is borrow the shares on your behalf and sell them and then you own negative shares.

你可以打电话给你的经纪人说，我要做空一号股票,经纪人就会在你的名下赊入这些股票,然后卖掉,这样你就拥有数量为负的股票了。

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and then they're like, "Yeah, we'll call you, we'll call you." That's fine. And they never called me

然后他们都说类似的话：“好的，我们会打电话给你的。”说得好听，但他们从来没给我打过电话。

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I think you should have called me as soon as you got here

你应该一到就给我打电话的，

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I tried calling you all week.

我一整个星期都在给你打电话。

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