The idea was that the --so he set up Moody's Rating Agency and the job of Moody's was to give letter grades to securities; it was a little bit like a bank, but it was different because he didn't actually make the loans.

主旨是... 因此他成立了穆迪评级机构,穆迪的工作就是用字母给证券评级,这有点像银行,但还是有区别,因为他并不发放贷款

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Do you think it's reliable to refer to rating websites?

你觉得网站评级可靠吗？

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The first rating agency in the world was created by Mr. John Moody, in the U.S. In 1909.

世界上第一家信用评级机构,是约翰·穆迪先生,于1909年在美国创办的

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So if you're working with cyanide in the lab as potassium cyanide or sodium cyanide, those are what are called p h s's, it's a rating for different kinds of chemicals.

因此如果你在实验室中,需要用到氰化物，比如氰化钾或者氰化钠，这就是所谓的，“P，H，S“,这是化学药品有害程度的一个级别。

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So, reporters start calling the other rating agencies-- Standard & Poor's and Moody's and others--and say, are you going to down-rate these guys?

于是记者们开始询问其他的评级机构,像是标准普尔和穆迪,问他们,你们打算给这些公司降级吗

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You read in the newspaper their interpretation of what's going to be said and so far the other rating agencies haven't; they're not saying anything.

你从报纸上读到媒体关于,他们会怎么说的猜测,但是迄今其他评级机构并无实际行动,他们没有任何表态

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Those are the two biggest rating agencies in the U.S. today and they're extremely powerful organizations because they --Standard & Poor's also does letter grades, a slightly different system, but almost the same.

如今他们是美国最大的两家评级机构,而且他们是非常权威的组织,标准普尔也进行字母评级,体系上有些区别,但基本相同

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You say, oh oh, this is bad news, if this is the only--if only one rating agency does that, okay, but--and it's only AMBAC that's been down-rated, but you starting wondering.

你会说,这是个坏消息,如果只是一家评级机构下降了评级,而且只有安巴克一家被降级,那还好,不过你开始担忧了

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