证券英语的特别语法现象(2)

        Suppose that with an initial margin of $3,000, Sara sold one May crude oil contrac at $25 per barrel for a total value of $25,000. By March, the price of oil had reached $20 per barrel and she bought back the contract which was valued at $20,000. By going short, she made a profit $5,000.　　
        （假如用３０００美元的初始保证金，萨拉以每桶２５美元的价格，卖出总值为２５０００美元的五月原油合约。到三月，石油价格跌到每桶２０美元。她买回价值为２００００美元的这份合约。通过做空，她获利５０００美元。）
        Some new dot-com millionaires in Silicon Valley cashed in on their latest IPO. The phenomenon spawned the term“siliconaire”which described the dot - comentrepreneurs who suddenly found themselves living large due to IPOs from their Internet companies. （一些新的硅谷互联网百万富翁在最近的首次公开发行股票变现。这种现象产生了“硅谷百万富翁”名称，“硅谷百万富翁”指的是，互联网公司的企业家们一夜之间富甲一方，是由于他们的互联网公司首发股票。）
        The investors may buy low and sell high if the company does well.（陈明瑶、刘法公、陈黎峰，２００３ ：５８）（如果公司运营良好，投资者可以低吸高抛。）
        这里的buy low and sell high 相当于buy the stock when the stock price is low and sell the stock when the stock price is high, 但比后者更简洁明了。
        ２. 形容词原级表示形容词最高级意思
        A daily candlestick is based on the open price, the intraday high and low, and the close.（日线K 线图由开盘价、当天的最高价和最低价以及收盘价组成。）
        Some investors consider the closing level to be more important than the open, high or low. By paying attention to only the close, intraday swings can be ignored. Line charts are also used when open, high and low data points are not available.（有些投资者认为收盘价比开盘价、最高价和最低价重要。只注意收盘价，当天的价格波动可以忽视。当没有开盘价、最高价和最低价时，也可使用线图。）
        ３. 形容词比较级表示最高级意思
        Futures price have a price change limit that determines the prices between which the contracts can trade on a daily basis. The price change limit is added to and subtracted from the previous day’s close, and the results remain the upper and lower price boundary for the day. Say that the price change limit on silver per ounce is $0.25. Yesterday the price per ounce closed at $5. Today’s upper price boundary for silver would be $5.25 and the lower boundary would be $4.75. At any moment during the day the price of futures contracts for silver reaches either boundary, the exchange shuts down all trading of silver futures for the day.（期货价格有价格变化限制，来限定合约一天的价格。这种价格变化限制就是，在头一天收盘价中加上或者减去限定数，得出的结果就是当天的价格的上下限。例如，每盎司银价限定价是０. ２５美元，昨天银价收盘价是５美元，那么，今天银价上限将是５．２５美元，下限是４．７５美元。一天中的任何时候期货合约中银的价格到达上限就不能再涨或者到达下限就不能再下跌了，当天期货银就涨停或者跌停。）