The reason they call them boiler rooms is, if you are selling stocks by telephone there's no reason to rent a nice office, so you get the cheapest -so you put a whole bank of telephones in the cheapest place.

它之所以被叫做锅炉房是因为,如果通过电话进行买卖交易,你没有必要去租一间漂亮的办公室,于是你租了最便宜的出租房,然后在那儿放满电话

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I rent a lot of DVDs, but... You don't know this one particular? -No.

我借过很多DVD，但是这个。,你唯独不知道这个？，恩。

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