Poor little Laura, my baby, to whom I had told everything about Dean, began almost to cry."Oh, we shouldn't let him go like this.What'll we do?"

可怜的小劳拉，我的宝贝，我曾经把狄恩的一切都告诉过她，这时她几乎要哭了：“噢，我们不能让他就这么走“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They told him that if earnings go up-- we try to keep a target payout ratio-- but if earnings suddenly shoot up, we're not going to increase our dividends right away because that would set too high an expectation and we don't want to have to cut it.

他们告诉他,如果收益提高,我们会努力维持既定的股利发放率,但如果收益大涨,我们不会马上提高股利,因为这样会导致过高的期望,我们也不想降低股利

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