新视野大学英语视听说教程3 Unit 10-10

Now Your Turn
A: Hey, Jack¹, I hear you become a millionaire by investing² in the stock³ market. But I always lose money in the market. Can you give me a few tips?
B: First of all, let’s look at the stock listing in today’s newspaper.
A: Wow, the stock market dropped again.
B: What stock did you buy?
A: BCD.
B: How many points did it lose this time?
A: More than a hundred.
B: Let’s see…That’s a drop of nearly five percent.
A: Oh, there goes a lot of my money. I’m thinking about pulling out of the market.
B: Before you get upset, I’d like to give you some advice.
A: What’s that?
B: Well, the market is cyclical. Through you’re losing money now, your stock may gain in future. Personally, I believe your stock is a good one. You’d better keep it until it goes up one day.
A: So I can’t make money in a short time?
B: Let’s look at XYZ stock. It’s now a junk stock, but it’s been low for a long time. It may climb up at any moment.
A: So, I’ll buy it and wait for it to go up.
B: And cash in your stock when it reaches a point that is high enough to give you a profit. My basic principle is to buy at the bottom and sell at the peak.
A: I see. I’ll buy low and sell high. But what if XYZ plunges⁴ again after I buy it?
B: You have to take changes. There’s always risk in the stock market.

1 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

2 investing   

v.投资，花费( invest的现在分词 )；授予；（把资金）投入；投入（时间、精力等）

参考例句：

• He was timid about investing money. 他不敢投资。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Europe also caught the excitement of investing in American railroads. 欧洲人对投资美国铁路也极感兴趣。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件

3 stock   

n.存货，储备；树干；血统；股份；家畜；adj.存货的；平凡的，惯用的；股票的；畜牧的；vt.进货，采购；储存；供给；vi.出新芽；进货

参考例句：

• The shop takes stock every week on Friday mornings.这家商店每星期五早晨盘点存货。
• Experts have forecast an upturn in the stock market.专家已预测股票市场价格有上升趋势。

4 plunges   

n.跳进，投入vt.使投入，使插入，使陷入vi.投入，跳进，陷入v.颠簸( plunge的第三人称单数 )；暴跌；骤降；突降

参考例句：

• Even before he plunges into his program, he has his audience in his pocket. 他的节目甚至还没有出场，就已控制住了观众。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• 'Monseigneur, he precipitated himself over the hill-side, head first, as a person plunges into the river.' “大人，他头冲下跳下山坡去了，像往河里跳一样。” 来自英汉文学 - 双城记