价值数十亿的收益和账面利润泡汤了。
Billions of dollars' worth of profits-and paper profits-had disappeared.
账面利润不会使饼变大，他们给你一片比较大块的，你是多拿了别人的份，对社会并没有什么帮助。
Paper profits do not make the pie bigger. They give you a bigger piece. You take it from somebody else. It does not help the society.
红利和账面利润—通常是判断财务经理和公司首脑的准绳—并不会改进一公司或是美国工业的竞争地位。
Dividends and paper profits, the yardstick by which managers of money and heads of companies are judged, do not improve the competitive position of a company or of American Industry.
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