They're rules for how a company should keep its books so that there's some regularity and standards in how accounting is done.

准则规范了公司如何记账,并建立了一套,会计规范和标准

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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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When you're quadrupling in size in terms of people, there's always a tendency.

当公司需要将员工规模扩大为四倍时，许多公司会降低标准，但马克不会心慈手软。

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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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We keep all sorts of secrets in our company; we don't want to be filing all of our information all the time and to have it go right up on the website on standard forms so that everyone can easily process it.

我们希望保守公司的秘密,不愿意把公司信息归档,然后立刻以标准格式发布到网上,以便所有人浏览

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