Builders were doing extremely well until a couple of years ago their stock was soaring--now all of a sudden they're in crisis.

直至前几年建造商们的表现一直非常优异,本来股票大涨,忽然就陷入了危机

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and you failed to invest in that stock right before it took off through the charts.

你却没来得及在这只股票大涨之前及时投资。

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They told him that if earnings go up-- we try to keep a target payout ratio-- but if earnings suddenly shoot up, we're not going to increase our dividends right away because that would set too high an expectation and we don't want to have to cut it.

他们告诉他,如果收益提高,我们会努力维持既定的股利发放率,但如果收益大涨,我们不会马上提高股利,因为这样会导致过高的期望,我们也不想降低股利

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