Big Blue’s Shareholders Seeing Red

News words

• ridiculous        absurd
• nightmare        terrible, frightening dream ; haunting fear; horrible experience
• slash            cut ,reduce drastically
• chaos            complete absence of order or shape; confusion.
• broker            person who buys and sells for another
• field                answer extemporaneously
• frantic            wildly excite with joy, pain,
• disbelief            lack of belief; refusal to belief
• holler            yell
• epitomize        make something or somebody that perfectly display a quality, type.
• certificate         a document to certifying ownership, a promise to pay.
• portfolio         stocks, shares
• standby            somebody or something that can depend on.
• dog             one inferior of its kind; as a stock or bond not worth price
• crash            collapse
• jeopardy            danger of harm or loss
• pinkslip            a notification to an employee that he has been discharge
• standby            person or thing readily available            held in reserve on standby
• candidate
• in jeopardy = in danger
• camp out 露营 is equal to eat out
• nightmare        more than a million IBM stockholders last week took a nightmare ride on a stock they had long trusted.
• Slash            slash another 25,000 jobs
• Take a historic dive
• On the exchange floor to prevent chaos
• agony            in various stage of disbelief and agony
• frantic        brokers fields frantic calls
• epitomize        summarize        exemplify epitomize spirit            But I've been encouraged so far with the spirit epitomized by the members of Congress, particularly at the joint leadership meeting the other day.
• Help retire in style     
• Be in blissful ignorance        blissful    perfectly happy         happy because unaware
• pension fund 养老金
• counselor and author attorney     consultant
• self-deposit            in his self-deposit box
• meanwhile         in the meantime         Meanwhile, those neglected pieces of paper
• hurt         a hurt book 一本受到损坏的书。 He hurt my feeling.
• at a discount 打折
• be patriotic to somebody                It’s nice to be patriotic to your company.
• Who could end up with a slashed retirement account and a pinkslip.

phrase

• see red        become very anger
• camp out        spend the night outdoors
• count on         rely on
• do something In style     especially well, with great success, in confront
• end up with                finish         complete
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• In blissful ignorance 无知即是福
• Misery may love company 祸不单行.