经济学人常用术语 | Bull
Investor who expects the price of an asset or assets in general to rise.
经济学人常用术语 | Budget
The annual process through which a government sets out its spending plans and tax measures.
经济学人常用术语 | Bubble
The concept that asset prices can rise far higher than can be justified by their fundamentals, such as the expected cashflows that will derive from them.
经济学人常用术语 | Bretton Woods
Location in New Hampshire of a conference in 1944 which decided the post-war economic order.
经济学人常用术语 | Bounded rationality
A theory which assumes that, while individuals try to act rationally, there is a limit to the amount of information they may have, or can absorb.
经济学人常用术语 | Boom
A state of rapid economic expansion, as opposed to bust.
经济学人常用术语 | Book value
Another term for asset value.
经济学人常用术语 | Bonds
IOUs issued by a borrower which normally promise repayment of the money on a set date (the maturity) with regular interest payments during the life of the bond.
容易误译的英语 | buck
［例句］ She bought a dictionary for 10 bucks.
［误译］ 她花10只公羊的代价买了一本词典。
短篇小说 | Three Sundays in a Week
YOU hard-headed, dunder-headed, obstinate, rusty, crusty, musty, fusty, old savage!" said I, in fancy, one afternoon, to my grand uncle Rumgudgeon -- shaking my fist at him in imagination.
短篇小说 | From the Cabby's Seat
The cabby has his point of view. It is more single-minded, perhaps, than that of a follower of any other calling.
短篇小说 | The Kiss
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
