新视野大学英语视听说教程3 Unit 10-2

Listening In
Task 1: Tell me about the stock exchange.
Script
George: I’m supposed to give a presentation on the stock exchange, but I don’t yet know a thing about it. Could you give me some tips?
Diana: The problem with you is that you’ve skipped too many classes. Now, let me give you a few tips. First of all, you need to define the stock exchange. It’s an organization of brokers¹ and investment bankers. In Europe it is often called a bourse.
George: Could you tell me more about it? Like, how does it work?
Diana: It provides facilities for the trading of company stocks, mainly the location and the record-keeping devices.
George: Can I go and trade there?
Diana: It depends. You have to be a member of the exchange before you can buy and sell shares there. They call it having “a seat” on the exchange.
George: Something they use the term “stock market”.
Diana: Well, the trading of stock on stock exchanges is called the stock market.
George: How can a company be listed on the stock exchange?
Diana: It has to meet certain requirements. To be listed on the New York Stock Exchange last year, for example, a company had to have issued at least a million shares of stock worth＄16 and had to have had more than ＄2.5 million net income.
George: Wow, that’s a huge sum! Small companies haven’t got a chance.
Diana: Big companies have more influence on the stock prices after all.
George: I see what you mean.

Stock exchange   a thing    some tips   define    investment bankers    Europe        a member    stock market   requirements   a million shares    net income
 

1 brokers   

n.（股票、外币等）经纪人( broker的名词复数 )；中间人；代理商；（订合同的）中人v.做掮客（或中人等）( broker的第三人称单数 )；作为权力经纪人进行谈判；以中间人等身份安排…

参考例句：

• The firm in question was Alsbery & Co., whiskey brokers. 那家公司叫阿尔斯伯里公司，经销威士忌。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
• From time to time a telephone would ring in the brokers' offices. 那两排经纪人房间里不时响着叮令的电话。 来自子夜部分