Well, Goodbody & Company is supposed to have your shares but they generally hold them in what's called "Street name."

古德巴迪公司应该留有你的股票,不过一般是以行号代名方式持有

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One of them is as a shareholder and the shareholder gets a share-- is entitled to a share--of the profits.

其中一种是股东,股东持有股票,股东有权分配利润

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You also don't know that they'll give them to the equity owners they won't squander in the future.

你也不知道,他们是否能够兑现股票持有者,它们不会挥霍未来。

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Of course, other stocks are held by institutions on their behalf, but in terms of direct ownership, homes are the main thing that people own.

当然,他们还通过金融机构,间接持有股票,但从直接持有的角度来看,人们拥有的主要财产就是住宅

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The price reflects--really, when you buy a share of a company you own it forever.

这个价格反映出,当你购买一份股票并永久持有时

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Why would anyone not just hold a lot of-- a really large number of stocks?

为什么人们不持有-,巨额的股票呢？

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That means Goodbody & Company owns the shares and you just have a contractual relationship with Goodbody that, in principle, some of those shares are yours.

也就是说持有股票的是古德巴迪,你只不过与其有着合同关系,原则上,部分股票归你所有

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Some of them are absolutely dependent on their holding of these stocks.

有些人完全依靠,他们持有的这些股票为生。

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Stocks owned directly by households are only about six trillion.

居民直接持有的股票总值,只有六万亿美元

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The value of real estate in the United States today is -of real estate owned by households directly -is about twenty trillion dollars, which makes it comparable or maybe a little bit bigger than the stock market.

现今美国房地产的价值,也就是居民直接持有的房地产的价值,大概有20万亿美元,这与股票市场总值相当,可能还要更大一点

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I don't care what happens to Citigroup or IBM, except for the fact that there are all those stockholders out there and they're of all different situations.

我不关心花旗集团或者IBM的事，但是由于,很多人持有它们的股票,那就是另一回事了。

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