过去办事官员还只满足于电视机，香烟之类的东西作回报，现在他们已要求土地产权，股票证券，甚至直截了当要美元。

Once our officials were content with television sets or imported cigarettes as payment for official services, they now demand land rights, stock certificates, and even directly dollars.

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我读了由埃德温·李费夫撰写的《股票作手回忆录》，该书描写上世纪20年代著名投机商、绰号“华尔街跳水男孩”的杰西·利弗莫尔。

I read Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, a book by Edwin Lefevre about Jesse Livermore, a famous 1920s speculator whose nickname was the Boy Plunger of Wall Street.

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“意向报价”，一种由作市商提供的用于占位的报价，可使得一些为人熟知的股票以低至1美分的价格售出。

“Stub quotes”, placeholder prices provided by marketmakers, caused some shares in household names to be sold for as little as a cent.

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We're going to call asset one stocks in the U.S.

我们把美国的股票设作资产一。

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