If a corporation is legally a person, then states cannot limit corporate rights without due process of law either.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

You can--when you set up a corporation there are different kinds of relationships that people might have with a corporation.

当你建立一家公司时,人与公司之间,就会有千丝万缕的关系

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There's the insurance company, could be a corporation and it could be either a non-profit corporation or a for-profit corporation owned by shareholders.

一个保险公司,可以是,非盈利性股份公司,也可以是以盈利为目的的股份公司

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The ruling is based on the idea in the United States and many other countries that a corporation is a legal person.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

I read an article a while back about a private fire company, the Salem Fire Corporation, in Arkansas.

我看过一篇关于私人消防公司的文章，在阿肯色州有一家塞伦消防公司。

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For example, a corporation can face civil or criminal fines and individual lawbreakers can go to jail.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

When you create a corporation, you write up a contract, which specifies the rules of the corporation; it's like a constitution for the corporation.

创建公司时,你会起草一份协议,其中规定了公司的条款,就像公司的宪法一样

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But limited liability means the actions of a corporation are not the responsibility of its shareholders.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Now, the critical thing to understand about a corporation is that in order to value a share in a corporation you absolutely have to know the number of shares outstanding.

理解这类公司的关键在于,要衡量一家公司股票的价值,你必须清楚总共发行的股票数量

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that I can invest in a corporation without becoming liable for all its debts.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

The state law probably requires that a corporation have a board of directors, but it's also something that can be defined at the time that you create the corporation in the bylaws.

州法规定,公司必须要有董事会,但还有一些规定,是你在制订公司制度时自由规定的

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Laws in the United States and other countries treat a corporation like a person.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

The idea, of course, is that we have a legal entity--a corporation-- that issues shares that are either given to people or purchased by people and the idea is that shares represent contributions.

最初的做法是,一个法人实体即公司,发行股票,然后发放或卖给人们,理念就是,股票象征着贡献

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Yang Liu is Managing Director of Huayi Brothers Media Corporation, a production house and movie distributor.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Yale University is a non-profit corporation; the price of a share in Yale University is undefined-- it's zero over zero.

耶鲁大学可以看作是个非盈利组织,它的股价无法定义,是零除以零

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Among the assets eyed by the prosecutors are several American mosques and a New York skyscraper owned by the Alavi Foundation and the Assa Corporation.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

Now incidentally, in a for-profit corporation-- this is how to understand this, this is a concept that is enshrined in law.

顺便提一下,在一家盈利性公司中,我们需要这样理解,这是个在法律中明文昭示的概念

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The world was literally destroyed by a corporation called "buy in large" and the only people that were left in the world were these few incredibly obese individuals floating in space."

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

If you take part in a partnership you are individually liable for the debts of the corporation.

如果你加入了合伙制企业,个人需要为企业的债务承担责任

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During the two thousand eight presidential campaign, a nonprofit corporation released a film critical of Hillary Clinton.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

Well actually, we have some voting among alumni I guess, but it's not a for-profit corporation.

实际上,在校友会活动中还是会投票的,但这不是个盈利性公司

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Wayne Bronner,Wally's son, is president and chief executive of what is now a multi-million dollar corporation.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

People on Wall Street found that difficult to say -Federal National Mortgage Corporation- so they nicknamed it Fannie Mae; it sounds like a woman's name.

华尔街的人觉得这名字很拗口,联邦,国民,抵押,贷款,协会,所以给它起了个昵称,房利美,这听起来像个女性名字

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The Corporation for National and Community Service released a report this week.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

You can sign up with the Salem Fire Corporation, pay a yearly subscription fee, and if your house catches on fire, they will come and put out the fire.

你可以和塞伦消防公司签约，每年支付会员费，如果你的房子着火，他们会来灭火。

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And Mr.Karzai is now widely seen as presiding over a corrupt government, says analyst Nora Bensahel of the RAND Corporation.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

A corporation is an entity that could be sued or could lose more money than it's worth, but the value of a corporation can never fall below zero to the investors because the investors are not liable for the mistakes of the corporation.

公司是一个实体,它可能被起诉,或者亏损额超过了自身的价值,但是对于投资者而言,公司的价值永远不会小于零,因为投资者对公司的过失,不负有责任

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Despite an expensive, multimedia campaign, public relations experts say BP's image remains that of a big, faceless corporation.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

A limited partnership is one kind of DPP and it has--it's not a corporation, so it's a partnership.

有限合伙制是DPP的一种,它不是公司制,而是合伙制

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He has a new name for it -I think it's called Home Equity Protection Corporation -but almost the same idea.

他已经想出了一个新名字,我想应该是叫做住房资产保护公司,但是这几乎跟房主贷款公司是一样的

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