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当生意出现亏损时的用语 Our first expression is in the red. It is another way of saying that a business is losing money. In the past, numbers in the financial records of a company were written in red ink to show a loss. 第一个词汇是“赤字”。它是贸易亏损的另一种表达方式。从前，一个公司的财务报表上用红字书写的部分表示亏损。 A business magazine recently published a report about a television company. The report said the company was still in the red, but was able to cut its loss from the year before. 一本商业杂志最近报道了一家电视公司，报道上说，这家公司仍出现赤字，但可以在年内扭亏。 A profit by a business is written in black numbers. So a company that is in the black is making money. An international news service reported that a private health insurer in Australia announced it was back in the black with its first profit in three years. 贸易中的利润是用黑字表示的。与前述相反，如果一家公司（财务报表上）是黑字，那么就表示这家公司赢利。一则国际新闻报道上说，一家澳大利亚私人人寿保险公司宣布，该公司三年来首次赢利。 Another financial expression is run on the bank. That is what happens when many people try to withdraw all their money from a bank. A run on the bank usually happens when people believe there is danger a bank may fail or close. 另一个金融术语是“冲向银行”，意思是说，当很多人争先恐后的从银行取钱时的情形。通常情况，当人们觉得一家银行可能出现亏损或面临倒闭危险时，就会出现这个词汇描写的情况。 Newspaper reports about a banking crisis in Russia used that expression. They said the government acted because of fears that the crisis would cause a run on the banks. When a run on the banks was starting, there was not much they could do, said a banking expert. 报纸上一则关于一家俄罗斯银行倒闭的报道曾引用了这个词。报纸上说，政府部门采取了行动，唯恐出现因倒闭所致冲向银行。 Day trading is a system that lets investors trade directly on an electronic market system. The system is known as NASDAQ, short for The National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation. It was the first completely computerized stock market. It sells stocks of companies not listed on any stock exchange. Many high technology companies are listed on it. “工作日交易”表示一个系统，可以允许投资者在电子市场系统中直接操作。这个系统被称为“那斯达克”，是“全国证券交易商自动报价系统协会”的英文缩写。这是首个完全电脑交易的证券市场。它卖出的公司股票不列在任何证交所的名录中。很多高科技公司都是它旗下的公司。 Day trading companies provide a des