时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:2018年NPR美国国家公共电台8月


英语课

 


AILSA CHANG, HOST:


OK, Apple has become the first private sector 1 company to be worth a trillion dollars. That's after its share price hit an all-time high today. Reporter Ryan Kailath has the story now that he's worked out exactly how many zeroes are in 1 trillion.


RYAN KAILATH, BYLINE 2: Twelve zeros, as it happens. You need four commas for a trillion dollars. Apple hit the figure when its share price jumped more than 8 percent this week. That's after the company reported strong quarterly earnings 3 driven mostly by iPhone sales. The trillion and change is actually Apple's market capitalization. That's what you get when you multiply the number of shares by the share price. It's a historic moment, and the talking heads are talking.


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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: But yes, we officially hit it. We officially made history today. Apple did.


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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Apple just hit a trillion dollars in market value.


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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: For the first time in history, a company is worth $1 trillion.


KAILATH: So big deal - super meaningful, right?


KIM FORREST: Kind of unimportant.


KAILATH: Kim Forrest is a portfolio 4 manager at Fort Pitt Capital, and she says the number's largely symbolic 5. Apple doesn't unlock any new capitalist superpowers now that it's crossed the threshold. It just sounds cool. If anything, it means the company can borrow more money if it wants. Forrest likens it to, well, being rich.


FORREST: The bigger your house, the more you can borrow against it because the lender thinks that your house is going to be worth more tomorrow than it is today.


KAILATH: Some investors 6 think this is actually a bad thing, a sign that Apple's stock is overvalued. Forrest says, maybe, but she adds Apple's got revenue on the books to back up its high valuation unlike some of its fancy tech sector peers. Some of those peers are likely to join Apple in the four-comma club. Amazon's close. But in the history books, you rarely learn who came in second. For NPR News, I'm Ryan Kailath.



1 sector
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
  • The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
  • The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
2 byline
n.署名;v.署名
  • His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
  • We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
3 earnings
n.工资收人;利润,利益,所得
  • That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.那个老人靠他女儿的收入维持生活。
  • Last year there was a 20% decrease in his earnings.去年他的收入减少了20%。
4 portfolio
n.公事包;文件夹;大臣及部长职位
  • He remembered her because she was carrying a large portfolio.他因为她带着一个大公文包而记住了她。
  • He resigned his portfolio.他辞去了大臣职务。
5 symbolic
adj.象征性的,符号的,象征主义的
  • It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
  • The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。
6 investors
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
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accreditate
acrosomic system
Adderbury
Alpenrhein River
ass fuck
back in time
bank annuities
bedroom town
BIOSes
bur oaks
Camellia assamica
capillaropathy
cash surrender
cellomics
coded converter
congealation
cortiral
crankcase conditioning oil
cranked coil
cress green
deglobalized
Denison gauge
detail printing
Dublovice
Dunbaria rotundifolia
dynamic region area
embossed candle
endogenous development
Fanno line
fantad
femoral pulse
financial instruments
flying shore
forestry ranger
freshet period
fuck ya
group transfer
hexagon-headed bolt
historical-cost rules
Hoanh Mo
hypoelliptic operator
infrared locator
inspiratory resistance
is on the ball
Ivolândia
job sites
joint seam
Kerch
land-of-sight coverage
leading truck
leen
long-bodied type
maler kotla
mesophilic range
minimum separabile
moiff
monochromators
Morison
mulsannes
nonmedieval
o.e.d
Orepuki
other day evening
outer waterway
overqualifications
phelp
Pitkyarantskiy Rayon
pogroist
political contribution
pool halls
porous microbeads support
position independent program
post office network list
premonstrations
produce a war
pyramidal decussation
rainfall intensity frequency curve
raynard
re-collect
retinoblastoma protein
roll crushing mill
seasonal arima models
semi-sentence
spring grinding machine
spud for anti-slip
takrouri
Tarenna acutisepala
tenth-normal
threewheeler
to need
toleranced taper method
triple correlation coefficient
uncomparatively
unpermeable seam
url submission
value of re-export
villanella
Volkmann's paralysis
watch yourself
Windows Registry
wipe one's boots on
zuni icosahedron