You can go there and say, I want to buy stocks, and the broker will say fine, we'll set up an account for you.

你去那说,我想买股票,经纪人说,没问题,先给你建个账户

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If you own stock-- we don't get them in the mail anymore because you own it through some brokerage account and you get it on a website.

如果你有股票...,我们现在不通过挂号信了,因为人们都通过经纪人账户,在网站上购买股票

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There are two things: you can have a cash account with them you put money into the cash account and you haven't bought shares with it yet; it's just sitting--it's like in a bank.

这里有两种情况,一种是你有现金账户,你将钱存进现金账户,但还没有买股票,仅仅是做储蓄,就像存在银行

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