Looking forward, we hope to average several points better than the S&P – though that result is, of course, far from a sure thing.

展望未来，我们希望能够有超越标普指标几个百分点的业绩——尽管要取得这一业绩显然不是一件确定的的事情，远远不是一件确定的事情。

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It seemed like a sure thing, too, until last month, when Apple bought chip designer P.

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