That would mean that companies should try to push their debt-equity ratio up as high as possible given that theory.

这个理论意味这公司将,尽力提高负债权益比

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When the price-earnings ratio gets high like it did in 1929 people get antsy.

当市盈率上升,如1929年,人们焦躁不安

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All tended to have a high slave-to-free ratio of population.

人口中奴隶所占的比例 都是非常高的

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We had an extraordinarily high price-to-earnings ratio representing a lot of optimism in the '20s for the stock market and then it corrected and went abruptly downward-- that was The Great Depression.

在二十年代,市盈率高得离奇,表现了当时人们对股票市场的乐观,当其得到修正并突然下跌时,大萧条便开始了

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