"전설로 떠나는 월가의 영웅" 원서로 공부하기 36편, "한 때 잘 나갔던"을 영어로?

* 전설적인 펀드 매니저 피터 린치의 "전설로 떠나는 월가의 영웅" 원서를 통해 투자공부와 영어공부, 두 마리 토끼를 모두 잡기 위한 컨텐츠입니다.

* 원서 제목은 "One up on wall street" 입니다.

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오늘은 8장입니다. 8장 The Perfect Stock, What a Deal!

 

# Investors who owned the old ATT stock had eighteen months to decide what
to do. They could sell ATT and be done with the whole complicated mess, they
could keep ATT plus the shares and fractions of shares in the new Baby Bells
that they received, or they could sell the parent and keep the Baby Bells. If they
did their homework, they sold ATT, kept the Baby Bells, and added to their
position with as many more shares as they could afford.

 

☞ 가능하면 많은 주식들을 샀을 것이다, 영어로 어떻게 할까요?

added to their position with as many more shares as they could afford.

 

☞  그들의 포트에 추가하다를 영어로 added to their position로 표현했습니다.

 

☞  감당할 수 있을 만큼의 많은 수, "as many more shares as they could afford" 이라는 표현에 집중헤야 합니다.

 

afford의 용법에 대해 다시 생각해 봐야 합니다.

 

afford : if you can afford something, you have enough money to be able to pay for it. This word usually follows ‘can’, ‘could’, or ‘be able to’

I’m not sure how they are able to afford such expensive holidays.

We need a bigger house, but we just can’t afford the rent.

can/can’t afford to do something: The company simply cannot afford to pay overtime.

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# Pounds of material were sent out to the 2.96 million ATT shareholders
explaining the Baby Bells’ plans. The new companies laid out exactly what they
were going to do. A million employees of ATT and countless suppliers could
have seen what was going on. So much for the amateur’s edge being restricted to
a lucky few. For that matter, anyone who had a phone knew that there were big
changes going on. I participated in the rally, but only in a modest way—I never
dreamed that conservative companies such as these could do so well so quickly.

 

☞  lay out : to arrange something according to a detailed plan, for example rooms in a building, roads in a town, or areas on a piece of land

The city was laid out with the town hall on a hill in its centre.

The brochure is beautifully laid out and illustrated.

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# (5) THE INSTITUTIONS DON’T OWN IT, AND THE ANALYSTS
DON’T FOLLOW IT
If you find a stock with little or no institutional ownership, you’ve found a
potential winner. Find a company that no analyst has ever visited, or that no
analyst would admit to knowing about, and you’ve got a double winner. When I
talk to a company that tells me the last analyst showed up three years ago, I can
hardly contain my enthusiasm. It frequently happens with banks, savings-andloans,
and insurance companies, since there are thousands of these and Wall
Street only keeps up with fifty to one hundred.

 

☞ admit to : to say that you have done something wrong or illegal

She admitted two charges of handling stolen goods.

admit (that): She freely admits that she made mistakes.

admit to: In court he admitted to lying about the accident.

admit doing something: Davis admitted causing death by careless driving.

☞ 기쁨을 감출 수가 없었다, 딱 이 표현에 맞는 게 뭘까요?

I can hardly contain my enthusiasm

 

contain : to control or hide an emotion

I couldn’t contain my excitement any longer.

barely/hardly contain something: Laura barely contained her fury.

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# I’m equally enthusiastic about once-popular stocks the professionals have
abandoned, as many abandoned Chrysler at the bottom and Exxon at the
bottom, just before both began to rebound.

 

☞  한 때 잘 나갔던, 이라는 표현을 어떻게 할까요? 

once-popular stocks