英语PK台 第124期:你在投资什么?(2)
英语课
Dialogue
(Jingjing and Xiao Gao share thoughts on today's economy)
（京晶和小高正在讨论当前的经济状况）
Xiao Gao: What do youthink, Jingjing, are we in a bubble?
小高：京晶，你觉得我们现在是经济泡沫吗？
Jingjing: We need to wait out the year, 2015 will tell us, it's going to be boom or bust 1, that's for sure.
京晶：这得等等看，要到2015年才能确切知道经济到底是会繁荣还是衰退。
Xiao Gao: Bust? In Beijing? You're crazy, we may be over-heated, but I don't think that the bottom will drop out.
小高：衰退？北京？你疯了吗？我们只可能经济过热，肯定不会下降的。
Jingjing: I don't know,the jury is out on that one, only time will tell. What about you? You own an apartment, don't you?
京晶：我不知道，现在还不能下定论，只有时间能告诉我们。话说你有一处房产对不对？
Xiao Gao: Yea we bought-in when things were affordable 2, but if we were buying today, I'd be shut-out.
小高：是的，我们是在房价还能承担得起的时候买入的。但是如果我们今天要买，肯定就没戏了。
Jingjing: I know what you mean, I missed the boat, but to be honest, I could never buy property unless the house was a good size piece of land, that's what real estate means to me.
京晶：我完全明白，我已经错失机会了，但是说实话，如果房地产不是建在一块大小合适的土地上的话我是不会买的。
Xiao Gao: We're a ways off from that situation here in China, but it's coming slowly. How about the financial markets, are you a player?
小高：以中国的现状来看，我们离这个理想还差得远呢。不过总会慢慢实现的。那金融市场呢，你投资吗？
Jingjing: Huh! On my salary? I've got no disposable income and even if I did, I think I'm too conservative to take that kind of gamble.
京晶：就凭我的工资？我没有多余的钱，就算我有，我也太过传统，不敢像那样赌博。
Xiao Gao: Public trading is pretty well-regulated these days and it's attracting a lot more investors 3.
小高：其实现在的金融市场已经很规范了，并且吸引了很多投资者。
Jingjing: Still, it's too high a risk for me, so as far as investments go, I'm kind of stuck in between the lines.
京晶：但是对我来说还是太冒险了，一说到投资，我就只有远观的份儿了。
习语短语
1. bubble = 经济泡沫，指繁荣景象只是表面现象
2. boom or bust = 上升或下降，成功或失败
3. The botton will drop out. = 市场骤降。
4. The jury is out. = （法律中指陪审团成员还没有表决完回到法庭上）指还不能够下定论，结果还悬而未决。
5. to buy-in = 买入，投资金融市场
6. shut-out = 不能参与某事，做某事没有希望
7. to miss the boat = 失去机会
8. a ways off = 离某个目标还远着呢
9. disposable income = 多余的钱，指个人收入扣除生活必要花费以外的钱
10. in between the lines = （每行文字间的空白处）这里指处于不做为、不活动的状态
1 bust
vt.打破；vi.爆裂；n.半身像；胸部
- I dropped my camera on the pavement and bust it. 我把照相机掉在人行道上摔坏了。
- She has worked up a lump of clay into a bust.她把一块黏土精心制作成一个半身像。
2 affordable
adj.支付得起的，不太昂贵的
- The rent for the four-roomed house is affordable.四居室房屋的房租付得起。
- There are few affordable apartments in big cities.在大城市中没有几所公寓是便宜的。
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