An option is a contract that says you can buy so many shares of a company.

期权就是指你可以,在公司里购买多少股份的一份合同

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It's like another form of compensation and that compensation might have different attractiveness, so they give the person a package--both a salary and some shares.

像是另一形式的薪金,这种薪金可能有着不同的激励效果,所以给他一种组合激励,工资加股份

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The other thing that a company can do to get money out is share repurchase-- stock repurchase or share repurchase It's perfectly--this sometimes surprises people when they first think about it.

另外一个可以让公司,收回投资的方法是股票回购,股票回购或者股份回购,最初看到这一方法时,人们可能会十分惊讶

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