If you buy stock in a company the most you can lose is the money you put up, so that's called limited liability.

如果你买了一个公司的股票,你最多只会赔掉投进去的钱,所以这叫做有限责任

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and you failed to invest in that stock right before it took off through the charts.

你却没来得及在这只股票大涨之前及时投资。

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Well, you should be absolutely unexcited because it doesn't mean anything; if they were giving you extra shares and just you alone, that would be great--that would be good.

你根本不应该感到高兴,因为这没有什么意义,如果他们只给你一人发放股票,这就是件好事

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