The Wall Street Journal calls around to the dealer, which has an inventory of all these maturities and asks them for their bid and ask.

华尔街日报》联系中间商,他们有各类期限的国库券,并询问他们的买入价和卖出价

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And a dealer--what a dealer does is it maintains an inventory of, in this case, treasury bills and then it stands ready to buy and sell.

中间商所做的是,囤积各类国库券,随时准备交易

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Well, that program was interesting because it had an inventory which was implemented in Scratch with a list which is kind of like a container that you can add things to again and again.

那个程序很有趣,它有一个用Scratch做出来的清单,还有一个貌似容器的列表,你可以不断往里面加东西。

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What you normally do is you go to a dealer and a dealer is someone, a professional, who participated in the auction and bought these up to accumulate an inventory to then sell off to you, the customer.

你通常会去找一些中间商,中间商是专业从业者,他们参与拍卖,积蓄库存,再转销给一般顾客

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