So, reporters start calling the other rating agencies-- Standard & Poor's and Moody's and others--and say, are you going to down-rate these guys?

于是记者们开始询问其他的评级机构,像是标准普尔和穆迪,问他们,你们打算给这些公司降级吗

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The S&P 500 is 500 companies, who are major companies, so these tend to be mature companies and they tend to be in the dividend-paying stage.

标准普尔500指数包括500家大公司,这些一般都是成熟期的公司,他们一般都处于需要支付股利的阶段

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John Moody died in the 1950s, but after he died, Moody's and Standard & Poor did something that Moody would not have approved of -they started accepting fees from the people they rate; some people think that you shouldn't do that.

约翰·穆迪在20世纪50年代去世,他死后,穆迪公司和标准普尔做了一些,穆迪绝对不会允许的事情...,他们开始接受被评级者所缴纳的费用,有些人认为不应该这样做

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