金融英语2011-01.docVIP

金 融 英 语 Unit1 Money Figures American billionaire J. Paul Getty has a very famous saying, that is “ If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.” 美国的银行业大亨J. Paul Getty曾经说过一句话：如果你的钱是可以数得清楚的，那么你就不是一个真正的富人。 Well, the sentence is interesting, but actually we must know how to count the money before we get rich, especially in English. So, in today’s class, we would first learn to say English numbers. Most people working in finance, whether it is in accountancy, banking, broking, investment, insurance, or whatever, spend a lot of time dealing with numbers. 0 in English. Usually, we have the following 5 ways to say 0 in English. They are: OH, ZERO, LOVE, NOUGHT, NIL! say oh after a decimal point 6.03 six point oh three in telephone numbers 84 08 32 13 eight four oh eight three two one three in bus numbers No. 708 get the seven oh eight in hotel room numbers Room 308 Im in room three oh eight. in years 1905 nineteen oh five say nought before the decimal point 0.201 nought point two oh one say zero for the number 0 the number zero for temperature -5~C five degrees below zero say nil in football scores 5-0 Spain won five nil. say love in tennis 15- 0 The score is fifteen love. 0.002. （Nought point oh oh two） before the decimal point, read nought; after a decimal point, read oh. 2. Can you get back to me on 010 – 5175 – 0123 ? （Oh one oh five one seven five oh one two three） 3. room 804. （Eight oh four） 4. its 20 degrees below 0! （for temperature, say zero.） 5. Tennis scoring proceeds from 0 to 15 to 30 to 40 to game. love（0）fifteen（15）thirty（30）forty（40）game（胜局）。 The result of the game was 3 – 0. (three-nil) II. THE DECIMAL POINT In English, we use a point (.) and not a comma