【Nov.4】Business Today | BBC 今日
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
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| 0:06 | The UK and EU agree a draft deal to scrap Brexit red tape over food exports. | 英国和欧盟商定一份协议草案,废除粮食出口方面的Brexit繁文缛节。 |
| 0:13 | Best year ever, Apple shares dip on warnings the cost of serving its AI tools will hit | 有史以来最好的一年 苹果分享警告 服务其AI工具的成本将冲击 |
| 0:19 | margins despite posting solid revenues growth. | 尽管收入增长强劲,但仍有差额。 |
| 0:23 | Plus, as Americans go to the polls for the midterm elections, we find out how the rising | 此外,随着美国人去参加中期选举的投票,我们发现了如何上升 |
| 0:28 | cost of living is impacting farmers. | 生活费用正在影响农民。 |
| 0:31 | And billionaire levy on the ballot, California decides whether or not to tax its richest | 加州决定对富豪征税 |
| 0:36 | residents. | 居住者。 |
| 0:39 | Welcome. | 欢迎 |
| 0:39 | You're with Business Today in London with me, Sally Bundock. | 你和萨莉·本多克一起在伦敦做生意 |
| 0:42 | So we start in the UK with what could be a significant move by the government towards | 因此,我们从英国开始,政府可能朝着 |
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| 1 | The UK and EU agree a draft deal to scrap Brexit red tape over food exports. | 英国和欧盟商定一份协议草案,废除粮食出口方面的Brexit繁文缛节。 |
| 2 | Best year ever, Apple shares dip on warnings the cost of serving its AI tools will hit | 有史以来最好的一年 苹果分享警告 服务其AI工具的成本将冲击 |
| 3 | margins despite posting solid revenues growth. | 尽管收入增长强劲,但仍有差额。 |
| 4 | Plus, as Americans go to the polls for the midterm elections, we find out how the rising | 此外,随着美国人去参加中期选举的投票,我们发现了如何上升 |
| 5 | cost of living is impacting farmers. | 生活费用正在影响农民。 |
| 6 | And billionaire levy on the ballot, California decides whether or not to tax its richest | 加州决定对富豪征税 |
| 7 | residents. | 居住者。 |
| 8 | Welcome. | 欢迎 |
| 9 | You're with Business Today in London with me, Sally Bundock. | 你和萨莉·本多克一起在伦敦做生意 |
| 10 | So we start in the UK with what could be a significant move by the government towards | 因此,我们从英国开始,政府可能朝着 |
| 11 | resetting trade relations with the European Union ahead of a UK-EU summit later this month. | 在本月晚些时候举行联合王国-欧盟首脑会议之前,重建与欧洲联盟的贸易关系。 |
| 12 | The BBC understands the UK and EU have agreed a 200-page draft agreement on removing post-Brexit | 英国广播公司了解英国和欧盟已经商定了一份200页的协议草案,内容是删除Brexit后的内容。 |
| 13 | checks from food and agriculture exports, which has been circulated to EU nations in | 食品和农产品出口的检查,已分发给欧盟国家 |
| 14 | Brussels for consideration. | 布鲁塞尔供考虑. |
| 15 | Similar texts for deals on emissions trading and a youth travel and work scheme have also | 有关排放交易的类似案文以及青年旅行和工作计划也已经 |
| 16 | been circulated. | 页:1 |
| 17 | But the food deal is the most significant part of the so-called Brexit reset agreed | 但食品交易是 所谓的Brexit重置中最重要的部分 |
| 18 | so far, removing checks and red tape that hit exporters after the UK exited the EU's | 目前为止,英国退出欧盟后,取消对出口商的检查和繁文缛节。 |
| 19 | single market. | 单市场。 |
| 20 | The government claims the UK economy will eventually see over £5 billion worth of annual | 政府宣称英国经济 终年将超过50亿英镑 |
| 21 | benefits. | 福利。 |
| 22 | Tom Stevenson, who's investment director at Fidelity, told me how important this could | 汤姆·史蒂文森是菲德尔蒂的投资主管 他告诉我这有多重要 |
| 23 | be for exporters. | 适用于出口商。 |
| 24 | I would probably distinguish between three different ways of looking at this. | 我可能要区分三种不同的看待方式。 |
| 25 | One is, as you say, the importance of this to individual food exporters, and for them | 其一,如你所说,这是对单个食品出口商的重要性,对他们来说 |
| 26 | it is very significant, and particularly it will be significant for smaller food exporters. | 这一点非常重要,特别是对较小的粮食出口国来说尤其如此。 |
| 27 | If you're having to pay £200 to get an export certificate, you know, for a big company that's | 如果你要付200英镑才能拿到出口证书, 你知道,对于一家大公司来说 |
| 28 | an inconvenience, but for a small exporter that might be the difference between whether | 一种不便,但对于一个小出口商来说,这或许是: |
| 29 | it's actually worth exporting to the EU or not exporting. | 它实际上值得出口到欧盟或不出口。 |
| 30 | So I think for the individual business is very significant in terms of overall economic | 因此,我认为对于个体企业来说,就整体经济而言,非常重要。 |
| 31 | impact. | 影响。 |
| 32 | Yes, I would say that this is, you know, a positive for the UK economy, but it's relatively | 是的,我想说,这是,你知道, 一个积极的英国经济, 但相对而言, |
| 33 | small. | 小一点。 |
| 34 | I mean, the government's own figures, you mentioned that £5 billion figure of economic | 我的意思是,政府自己的数字, 你提到50亿英镑的经济数字 |
| 35 | benefits. | 福利。 |
| 36 | In the context of a £3 trillion economy, you know, that's not massively significant. | 在3万亿英镑的经济中, 你知道,那并不重要。 |
| 37 | But I saw a figure from the National Farmers Union. | 但我看到全国农民联盟的一个数字。 |
| 38 | They were suggesting that the food exports had fallen between 2019 before Brexit and | 他们表示,粮食出口在2019年布雷克西特和 |
| 39 | 2024 by 37 percent. | 2024年以37%的成绩晋级. |
| 40 | So in that context, it's important. | 所以在这种情况下,这很重要。 |
| 41 | And also, I think the Office for Budget Responsibility, they estimate that the Brexit impact on productivity | 而且,我认为预算责任办公室 他们估计Brexit对生产力的影响 |
| 42 | is something like 4 percent. | 大约4%。 |
| 43 | And while this is not going to reverse that, you know, it is a step in the right direction | 虽然这不会逆转,你知道, 这是朝着正确的方向迈出的一步 |
| 44 | to helping that productivity and investment situation for the UK. | 帮助联合王国的生产力和投资状况。 |
| 45 | I think the third way of looking at it, though, is probably the most interesting, the most | 我认为第三种看方式,虽然, 可能是最有趣,最 |
| 46 | important, that this is just this is a step, this is an indication of the direction of | 重要的是,这只是一个步骤,这是指示我们的方向。 |
| 47 | travel for the government in terms of being willing to accept the trade-offs, the extra | 为政府旅行 愿意接受权衡 额外 |
| 48 | regulatory alignment, which will be a part of this agreement in exchange for cutting | 条例协调,这是该协定的一部分,以换取削减 |
| 49 | some of the red tape, getting some of the grit out of the export machine for the UK | 一些繁文缛节,让一些grit 从出口机器为英国 |
| 50 | economy. | 经济。 |
| 51 | And as you say, it shows us the direction of travel of this current government. | 正如你所说 它向我们展示了本届政府的旅行方向 |
| 52 | And it means that, I guess, other issues that are also being discussed and on the table | 这意味着,我想,其他问题 也在讨论和摆在桌面上 |
| 53 | could likely be ironed out soon as well, like, for example, students fees for EU students, | 可能很快被淘汰 比如欧盟学生学费 |
| 54 | other areas of collaboration within defence or electricity, that kind of thing. | 国防或电力领域内的其他合作领域, |
| 55 | Yeah, I mean, the timing of this announcement is, you know, is no coincidence. | 是啊,我的意思是,这个宣布的时机是,你知道,不是巧合。 |
| 56 | We've got this EU-UK summit coming up on the 20th of this month. | 本月20日是欧盟 -英国峰会 |
| 57 | And this is clearly going to be a key part of that. | 这显然将是一个关键部分。 |
| 58 | But it is just part of a wider package of, you know, potential moves to eliminate some | 但它只是更广泛的一揽子计划的一部分, 你知道,潜在的行动 消除一些 |
| 59 | of the frictions, whether that's trade or whether it's, you know, freedom of movement | 摩擦,无论是贸易还是行动自由 |
| 60 | in terms of those students that you mentioned there, which will be discussed on the 20th | 关于你提到的那些学生, 将在20日讨论 |
| 61 | of the month. | 这个月。 |
| 62 | Tom Stevenson there from Fidelity. | 汤姆史蒂文森从菲德尔蒂那里。 |
| 63 | Well, as you can see, there is so much more detail on this story from our economics editor, | 嗯,如你所见, 关于这个故事的更多细节 来自我们的经济学编辑, |
| 64 | Faisal Islam,BBC新闻网站和app上的资料. | |
| 65 | So do take a look there for more detail. | 所以,请看看那里的细节。 |
| 66 | Now to big tech. | 现在大科技。 |
| 67 | And they don't come a lot bigger than Apple. | 而且它们不会比苹果大很多 |
| 68 | The iPhone maker has just reported its first set of earnings results since the new chief | iPhone的制作人刚刚汇报了自新主管以来的第一套收入结果 |
| 69 | executive, John Turnus, took the helm just two months ago, beating market expectations. | 执行官约翰·特努斯(John Turnus)在两个月前掌舵,打破了市场预期. |
| 70 | And it's fair to say he was happy with the numbers, saying Apple had just capped off | 说Apple刚刚跳伞,他很满意 |
| 71 | its best year ever. | 这是最棒的一年 |
| 72 | So we take a look at them. | 所以我们看看他们。 |
| 73 | Apple showed solid growth in the three months to September, with revenues rising by over | 苹果公司在3个月至9月的3个月里呈现了稳健的增长,收入上升超过 |
| 74 | $114 billion for the quarter. | 季度收入1140亿元. |
| 75 | And it was the iPhone sales doing the heavy lifting once again, which were up over 17 | 而iPhone的销售 又一次做了举重, 超过17 |
| 76 | percent compared to the year before. | 与前一年相比的百分比。 |
| 77 | But if you look at the share price, Apple shares actually slipped around three percent | 但是,如果你看看股价,苹果公司股价实际上跌了3%左右 |
| 78 | in after hours trading. | 数小时后进行交易 |
| 79 | And that is because they also had to talk about the rising component prices going forward | 因为他们也不得不谈论 不断上涨的成份价格 |
| 80 | from the unprecedented rise in memory chip costs and the cost of servicing its AI tools. | 从内存芯片成本的空前上升以及为其AI工具服务的费用。 |
| 81 | And this is going to erode its historically high margins going forward. | 这将会侵蚀它往前发展的历史高度。 |
| 82 | Michelle Fleury也看过数字 | |
| 83 | Apple is celebrating what it calls the best year in the company's history. | 苹果正在庆祝它称之为公司历史上最好的一年. |
| 84 | But even with those record numbers, there are some important questions about what comes | 但是,即使有这些记录数字, 有一些重要的问题 来什么 |
| 85 | next. | 下一个 |
| 86 | The company made $114.5 billion in sales over the last three months. | 公司在过去三个月中销售额达到1145亿美元. |
| 87 | That's up 12 percent from a year ago. | 这比一年前提高了12%。 |
| 88 | 大司机是iPhone. | |
| 89 | September was Apple's biggest ever month for iPhone sales, while services such as Apple | 9月是苹果公司有史以来最大的iPhone销售月,而Apple公司等服务公司则以9月为首. |
| 90 | TV, iCloud and Apple Music also had their best quarter yet. | 电视,iCloud和苹果音乐 也有他们最好的四分之一。 |
| 91 | Overall, the numbers were stronger than investors expected. | 总体而言,人数比投资者预期的要多。 |
| 92 | But there are some warning signs. | 但有一些警告迹象。 |
| 93 | Sales in China fell short of forecast, raising questions about Apple's ability to maintain | 中国销量低于预测,引发苹果维持能力质疑. |
| 94 | its position in one of its most important markets. | 它在其最重要的市场之一的地位。 |
| 95 | Apple is also dealing with rising memory costs and global pressure on computer component | 苹果公司还处理不断上升的内存成本和全球对计算机组件的压力 |
| 96 | supplies. | 物资。 |
| 97 | All of this is coming in the first earnings report under new CEO John Turnus, who took | 所有这一切都出现在第一次收入报告 在新的CEO约翰·特努斯的领导下,他采取了 |
| 98 | over from Tim Cook in September. | 9月从蒂姆库克过来 |
| 99 | So a record year for Apple. | 苹果创纪录的一年 |
| 100 | But the real question for its new CEO is whether the company can keep delivering that kind | 但对于新总裁来说 真正的问题是 公司能否继续提供 |
| 101 | of growth. | 增长。 |
| 102 | And that is a big question, Michelle Fleury there. | 这是个大问题 米歇尔·弗洛里 |
| 103 | But now let's focus on oil, because Saudi Arabia's state oil giant, Saudi Aramco, has | 但是,现在让我们集中关注石油,因为沙特阿拉伯的国有石油巨头沙特石油公司已经 |
| 104 | seen profits surge in the third quarter as well. | 第三季度利润也猛增。 |
| 105 | So Aramco made $36 billion in the three months to the end of September, up a third on this | 因此,在截至9月底的三个月里,石油公司赚了360亿美元。 |
| 106 | time last year, and largely it's been boosted by the soaring price of oil on global markets | 去年, 基本上由于全球市场油价暴涨, |
| 107 | over the summer because of the Iran War. | 因为伊朗战争, |
| 108 | Aramco, though, has been in the firing line itself recently. | 然而,Aramco最近一直在射击线上。 |
| 109 | Its sites have become targets for the Iran-backed Yemeni Houthis, who have hit its refineries, | 其地点已成为伊朗支持的也门胡塞人的目标。 |
| 110 | oil storage units and pipelines with drones and missiles. | 储油单位和输油管配有无人机和导弹. |
| 111 | So the price of oil fell sharply on Monday on reports of progress in peace talks. | 因此,石油的价格在星期一就和谈进展的报告急剧下跌。 |
| 112 | But it's been on the rise again, and news the U.S. has conducted new strikes on Iran | 但是它又开始上升了 美国对伊朗发动了新的打击 |
| 113 | in the last few hours, hitting Qashem Island, which is in the Strait of Hormuz, in what | 在过去的几个小时里,袭击了位于霍尔木兹海峡的卡什姆岛, |
| 114 | it called a defensive strike. | 这叫防御性打击 |
| 115 | So there's a lot for traders to be digesting today. | 故今有不少商人消化. |
| 116 | So if we look at the price of oil a short while ago on the international markets, a | 因此,如果我们看看 石油价格不久前在国际市场上, |
| 117 | benchmark Brent crude barrel is going at $106. | 布伦特原油桶价格为106美元。 |
| 118 | Let's unpack this with Nitesh Shah, who joins me now to talk about these results. | 我们和尼泰什·沙阿一起讨论一下这些结果 |
| 119 | Nitesh, it's great to have you on the program. | Nitesh 很高兴你能参加节目 |
| 120 | So if we talk about the numbers to begin with, unsurprisingly good. | 因此,如果我们谈论 数字开始, 无意外的好。 |
| 121 | Yeah, so Aramco has beaten profit expectations, earning what, $31.2 billion on an adjusted | 因此,Aramco打破了利润预期, 赚了多少, 312亿美元在调整后 |
| 122 | basis. | 基础。 |
| 123 | And that was largely due to strong refining margins. | 这在很大程度上是由于精炼幅度很大。 |
| 124 | So once a crude is made, turning them into the petroleum products. | 所以,一旦一个粗糙的, 把它们变成石油产品。 |
| 125 | But the problem was in this third quarter, relative to the second quarter, that oil prices | 但问题是第三季度,相对第二季度,石油价格 |
| 126 | were a little bit weaker, actually, in the third quarter, relative to the second quarter | 相对第二季度来说,第三季度略微弱了一点 |
| 127 | is the refining margins that really helped. | 是真正有帮助的精炼边缘。 |
| 128 | And it's really the amount of oil that they kept flowing that helped. | 它们不断流动的石油量确实有帮助。 |
| 129 | So they made up from weaker prices with higher volumes. | 所以它们从价格低廉和数量高处组成。 |
| 130 | And that requires reliable pipelines and shipping routes, which we know today still remain under | 这需要可靠的管道和航线,我们今天知道,这些管道和航线仍然在 |
| 131 | threat. | 威胁。 |
| 132 | Well, that's the problem, isn't it, Nitesh? | 这就是问题所在,不是吗,尼泰什? |
| 133 | It's all very well what they made in the last quarter. | 他们最后一季做的都很好 |
| 134 | But what is ahead? | 但前面是什么情况? |
| 135 | As we've mentioned, a lot of its facilities have come under fire and those alternative | 正如我们提到的,它的许多设施 遭到炮火袭击 和那些替代品 |
| 136 | routes it's been using are also under threat. | 它使用的路线也受到威胁 |
| 137 | Yeah, that's correct. | 没错 |
| 138 | And if you look at the reporting, that's Q3 reporting, September's over, there was | 如果你看报告,那是Q3报告,9月结束,有 |
| 139 | very little disruption to the east-west pipeline in that quarter. | 该区东西输油管很少中断。 |
| 140 | There was a shut down, a precaution shutdown for a few days. | 有关闭, 预防性关闭 几天。 |
| 141 | But the real wider reported attacks on the east-west pipeline happened in October. | 但据报道,对东西输油管的真正更广泛的攻击发生在10月。 |
| 142 | And as you mentioned, continued attacks from the US in Kesham keeps that threat of shipping | 正如你提到的那样,美国在凯沙姆的持续袭击 使航运威胁得以维持 |
| 143 | routes alive at the moment. | 这条路现在还活着。 |
| 144 | And therefore, you could see some threat. | 因此,你可以看到一些威胁。 |
| 145 | But once again, we've seen a recovery in oil prices in the current quarter relative to | 但是我们再一次看到本季度油价的回升 相对于 |
| 146 | the third quarter. | 第三个季度。 |
| 147 | But the attempts at diplomacy could be weakening that. | 但外交努力可能会削弱这一点。 |
| 148 | And we saw a 7% decline in oil prices yesterday. | 昨天油价下跌了7%。 |
| 149 | Yes, they're recovering a little bit today. | 是的,他们今天恢复了一点。 |
| 150 | But diplomacy could help in reducing these oil prices. | 但是,外交可以帮助降低这些石油价格。 |
| 151 | And if that's the case, we need to see realised confidence in moving oil through all the shipping | 如果是这样,我们需要看到 信心通过所有运输石油 |
| 152 | routes and pipelines from here onwards for Ramco to keep maintaining these kinds of results. | 从这里开始 拉姆科的路线和管道 来保持这些结果 |
| 153 | OK, Nitesh, thanks for your reaction to those numbers. | 好吧,尼泰什,谢谢你对这些数字的反应。 |
| 154 | Nitesh Shah from Wisdom Tree. | 来自智慧树的尼泰什·沙阿. |
| 155 | Now, the midterm elections in the US are here and Americans are voting for members of Congress | 现在,美国中期选举已经到来,美国人正在投票选举国会议员。 |
| 156 | in elections that could reshape the rest of President Trump's term in office. | 在可能重塑川普总统任期的选举中 |
| 157 | Leading the issues for voters is the rising cost of living. | 选民面临的主要问题是生活费用不断上涨。 |
| 158 | Gasoline prices have never been this high on a US election day before. | 美国大选前的汽油价格从未这么高过。 |
| 159 | And one group that's been hit particularly hard by the price hikes is farmers. | 被涨价打击特别严重的群体是农民。 |
| 160 | Our correspondent, Samira Hussain, is in Iowa, a state where agriculture is a major industry. | 我们的记者Samira Hussain正在艾奥瓦州,在那里,农业是一个主要工业。 |
| 161 | She's been talking to two cattle farmers, one Democrat, one Republican about the challenges | 她一直在和两个养牛人,一个民主党人,一个共和党人谈论挑战 |
| 162 | of rising costs. | 成本上升。 |
| 163 | They weighed 530 pounds and they were $2,500.30 a head, delivered to my farm from Western North Dakota. | 他们重530磅,每头2500.30美元,从北达科他西部送到我的农场。 |
| 164 | Diesel fuel is the lifeblood of the economy. | 柴油是经济的生命线. |
| 165 | And I checked the crude price before you came here and we are below $100. | 你来之前我检查了粗糙的价格 我们低于100美元 |
| 166 | So we're not at record high on crude, but we are at record high on retail prices, which | 因此,我们没有创纪录的原油, 但我们在创纪录的零售价格, |
| 167 | is, there's an anomaly there of some kind. | 有个异常点 |
| 168 | And why do you think prices are so high? | 为什么你认为价格这么高? |
| 169 | Well, it's just fuel is the big thing. | 燃料是大问题 |
| 170 | In fact, I've had Fuelman bring fuel two weeks ago and we talked about crude back in the | 事实上,我两周前让Fuelman带了燃料 我们谈了粗糙的回来 |
| 171 | Biden years. | 拜登岁月. |
| 172 | It was about $100 many, many days. | 它大约100美元很多,很多天。 |
| 173 | We said, Tim, we never had $6.25 diesel. | 我们说,蒂姆,我们从来没有 有6.25美元柴油。 |
| 174 | And he said, what did any, you know, we didn't talk politics. | 他说,我们没有谈论政治。 |
| 175 | We just talked fuel. | 我们只是谈燃料。 |
| 176 | He says, it's what's going on in the world right now is what's causing it. | 他说,这是现在世界正在发生的事情 是造成它的原因。 |
| 177 | President Trump says, look, this is just going to be temporary. | 特朗普总统说,你看,这只是暂时的。 |
| 178 | The high price of diesel is temporary. | 柴油的高价是临时性的. |
| 179 | Are you buying what he's selling? | 你买他卖的东西吗? |
| 180 | Well, I'd rather see it, you know, than, yeah. | 嗯,我宁愿看到它, 你知道,而不是,是的。 |
| 181 | Yeah, I hope he's right, but I don't know. | 是啊,我希望他是对的,但我不知道。 |
| 182 | Yeah, I hope he's right, too. | 是啊,我希望他是对的。 |
| 183 | But things you read, it doesn't sound like it's going to take a while. | 但你所读的东西,听起来并不需要一段时间. |
| 184 | You know, so I'm prepared for it to not go down for a little bit. | 你知道,所以我准备 它不要下去一点点。 |
| 185 | You know, what you do, you just, what you cut. | 你知道,你做什么, 你只是,你切。 |
| 186 | It's like what Jack, you know, your field trips, what we do, we don't make trips across | 就像杰克,你知道的,你的实地考察, 我们做什么,我们不旅行过 |
| 187 | the field that we don't need to make. | 我们不需要制造的田地。 |
| 188 | We try to watch our fuel consumptions. | 我们试着观察燃料消耗 |
| 189 | We're in Iowa. | 我们在爱荷华州。 |
| 190 | It's politics. | 这是政治。 |
| 191 | Election, you know, is coming up. | 大选即将到来 |
| 192 | I'm wondering where you are politically. | 我想知道你从哪里来 |
| 193 | I'm not happy. | 我不高兴。 |
| 194 | I'm real honest with you. | 我对你很诚实 |
| 195 | Point black with what's going on. | 点黑与事. |
| 196 | I mean, I guess I'm focusing on the farm economy. | 我的意思是,我想我 专注于农场经济。 |
| 197 | It's it's impacting on my decision on who I will vote for. | 这影响了我决定投票给谁 |
| 198 | Yeah, I think we're, you know, we're going to see how people, what the sentiment is | 是的,我想我们,你知道, 我们会看到如何的人, 是什么情绪 |
| 199 | And we're going to find out real quick and whether, you know, some people, you know, | 我们很快就会发现 一些人,你知道, |
| 200 | will support the status quo because of maybe social issues or, you know, I think, you know, | 将支持现状 因为也许社会问题 或者,你知道,我想,你知道, |
| 201 | so we're going to find that out. | 所以我们会找到答案的 |
| 202 | I don't know. | 师曰. |
| 203 | You know, yeah. | 你知道吗? |
| 204 | Where are you leaning, Jack? | 你在哪里倾斜,杰克? |
| 205 | Well, I'm a lifelong conservative, but it would be nice if we lived in among politicians | 好吧,我是一个毕生的保守主义者, 但是这将是很好的,如果我们住在 政治家中间 |
| 206 | who were statesmen who put country before, you know, and we're we're a long way from that | 他们以前是政治家,你知道的,我们离那很远 |
| 207 | at the moment, you know, where everybody's just so polarized, you know, it's it's a sad state of affairs. | 现在,你知道, 在那里,每个人都是如此的两极分化, 你知道,这是一个可悲的状况。 |
| 208 | I am concerned about the federal debt. | 我担心的是联邦债务 |
| 209 | Forty trillion dollar debt is a problem with no end in sight. | 40万亿美元的债务是一个问题,看不到结束。 |
| 210 | And I don't know how that looks down the road for kids. | 我不知道这对孩子来说是怎样的 |
| 211 | You know, you know, probably be OK for Tim and I maybe. | 你知道,你知道, 也许没事蒂姆和我也许。 |
| 212 | But, you know, long term, it can't be very healthy, I don't think, for the economy. | 但是,从长远来看,对于经济来说,它可能不太健康,我认为不太健康。 |
| 213 | Really interesting. | 真的很有趣,你觉得呢? |
| 214 | Two farmers there talking to Samira Hussain still to come. | 有两个农民在和萨米拉·侯赛因谈话, |
| 215 | Billionaire tax on the ballot. | 百万富翁税在选票上. |
| 216 | California votes on a controversial one time levy on its richest residents around the world and across the UK. | 加利福尼亚州投票表决一次对其全球最富有的居民和整个英国最富有的居民征收有争议的税. |
| 217 | This is BBC News. | 这是BBC新闻。 |
| 218 | 今天你和BBC新闻的Business Today合作 | |
| 219 | Alongside the midterm elections today, | 除了今天的中期选举之外, |
| 220 | voters in California will also decide on whether to become the first state in the US to impose a wealth tax on billionaires. | 加州的选民也将决定是否成为美国第一个对亿万富翁征收财富税的州. |
| 221 | Supporters say the one time five percent tax on the net worth of about 200 billionaires is a fair way to fund public services. | 支持者说,一次性对大约2 000亿富翁的净值征收5%的税,是资助公共服务的公平办法。 |
| 222 | Critics warn it could drive away investment in a state that is home to most of the US technology giants. | 批评者警告说,如果美国科技巨头们都住在那里,那么投资就会被赶走。 |
| 223 | Last month, Metaboss Mark Zuckerberg agreed a new share deal with the tech giant in a bid to prevent him leaving California should the proposed tax be voted in. | 上个月,Metaboss Mark Zuckerberg 与科技巨头达成新的股权交易, 试图阻止他离开加利福尼亚州, |
| 224 | Joshua Rohr is professor of finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business. | 约书亚·罗尔是斯坦福商业研究生院的财务教授. |
| 225 | He is one of the most prominent critics of the tax and explain the arguments. | 他是该税最突出的批评者之一,并解释这些论点. |
| 226 | Well, the proponents of this tax claim that it will raise one hundred billion dollars for the state of California. | 这个税项的支持者声称 它将为加州州筹集一千亿美元 |
| 227 | But they did not include the fact that many billionaires have actually left California already just in response to the announcement of this initiative. | 但他们并没有包括这样一个事实,即许多亿万富翁实际上已经离开加利福尼亚州,仅仅是为了响应这个倡议的宣布. |
| 228 | In addition, the state will lose not only the wealth tax that they might have brought in from those individuals, | 此外,国家不仅将失去他们可能从这些人那里带来的财富税, |
| 229 | but also the lost income tax revenues for the foreseeable future of all those people who have left and the jobs that they might take with them. | 在可预见的未来,所有离开的人的收入收入损失,以及他们可能从事的工作。 |
| 230 | Have we got a calculation for those who have left? | 我们有没有计算出那些已经离开的人? |
| 231 | And some of them are quite high profile names. | 有些是相当引人注目的名字。 |
| 232 | They've already made their move. | 他们已经行动了 |
| 233 | What the loss is, the fact that they've gone? | 什么损失, 他们已经走了? |
| 234 | Because there is a big question about how much tax these individuals actually do pay. | 因为对于这些人实际缴纳的税费,有一个大问题。 |
| 235 | Yes. | 对 |
| 236 | First, let's begin with the projections for how much the wealth tax will bring in. | 首先,让我们开始预测 财富税能带来多少钱。 |
| 237 | Proponents say one hundred billion dollars. | 拥护者说百千亿那由他. |
| 238 | We believe that 30 billion is an appropriate estimate of how much the wealth tax will bring in as a result of some of the very, | 我们认为,300亿美元是适当估计财富税将带来多少收益的,因为有些财富税, |
| 239 | highest net worth individuals having left and also the extensive legal contests that are going to take place. | 离家净值最高的个人,以及即将进行的广泛的法律竞争。 |
| 240 | The people who are staying, even Mark Zuckerberg, who you mentioned, he's not admitting that he's necessarily going to just pay the tax outright. | 那些留下来的人,甚至马克・扎克伯格, 你提到, 他不会承认 他一定会直接交税。 |
| 241 | He is probably planning to contest the tax. | 他可能打算去抗税 |
| 242 | And when you put all that together, 30 billion dollars seems like what the tax will raise. | 当你把这些都集中起来,300亿美元 似乎是税收会增加的。 |
| 243 | In addition, billionaires pay taxes to the state of California in the amount of around four to six billion dollars per year and growing. | 此外,亿万富翁每年向加利福尼亚州缴纳约40至60亿美元的税款,并不断增长. |
| 244 | That's real money. | 这是真正的钱。 |
| 245 | So there's a lot at stake today in the United States, that's for sure. | 所以,今天在美国,风险很大,这是肯定的。 |
| 246 | Now, to a word that might show your age, mogging. | 现在,一个字 可能显示你的年龄,移动。 |
| 247 | It's just been announced as Collins Dictionary's Word of the Year. | 刚被宣布为"柯林斯词典"年度之词. |
| 248 | Do you know it? | 你知道吗? |
| 249 | Mogging is to outshine or outperform someone or something. | 摩金是出乎意料 或优于某人什么的。 |
| 250 | And it's apparently a phrase well known to the Gen Z population. | 而且这显然是Gen Z人口熟知的一句话. |
| 251 | And so to talk to somebody about this, I spoke to Freya Fine. | 所以为了和别人谈谈这件事 我跟Freya Fine谈过了 |
| 252 | She is a Gen Zer who runs her own marketing agency in Madrid. | 她是Gen Zer,在马德里经营自己的营销机构. |
| 253 | I asked her if she uses the term. | 我问她是否使用术语。 |
| 254 | I mean, I'm at the very older age of Gen Z, but it's something that my team use in the office all of the time. | 我的意思是,我的年龄很老的Gen Z, 但它是我的团队 经常在办公室使用的东西。 |
| 255 | And it came to light to me about six months ago. | 大约六个月前我意识到了 |
| 256 | So that can give you an education. | 这样你就能接受教育了。 |
| 257 | So for those of us who are not so au fait with mogging, and I must admit it was news to me today, is it a term of endearment or is it a veiled insult? | 因此,对于我们中那些没有被拖累的人来说,我必须承认,今天对我来说,这是个新闻,是爱的期限,还是面纱上的侮辱? |
| 258 | No, absolutely. | 不,当然。 |
| 259 | It's the term of endearment. | 乃知内伤之谓也. |
| 260 | So, for example, if someone achieves something or does an amazing presentation with a client, they'll say, oh, amazing, you've mogged it. | 所以,比如说,如果有人在客户面前 有所成就或者做了一个令人惊叹的演示, 他们会说,哦,惊人的,你把它拖走了。 |
| 261 | So it's definitely endearment. | 所以绝对是内伤 |
| 262 | OK. | 摆 |
| 263 | So it's a positive thing. | 故曰阳气. |
| 264 | If you're mogging, you're doing well. | 移行则行. |
| 265 | Exactly. | 没错 |
| 266 | Yes. | 对 |
| 267 | OK. | 摆 |
| 268 | So in which circumstances is this used? | 那么,这是在什么情况下使用的? |
| 269 | You just mentioned after a presentation, but how else might it be used? | 你刚刚在演讲后提到过,但是还能用到什么? |
| 270 | It could be used in a visual setting as well. | 也可以在视觉环境中使用。 |
| 271 | So, for example, if someone looks amazing in a photo, you could say you've mogged the photo. | 所以,比如说,如果有人在照片中看起来很神奇, 你可以说你已经移动了照片。 |
| 272 | And how important is this that today it's recognised as the Colin Dictionary's Word of the Year? | 今天被公认为"科林词典"年度之词 有多重要? |
| 273 | Oh, I'm thrilled that it's been featured as Word of the Year. | 哦,我很高兴它被 以年度之言。 |
| 274 | I think it's really important that Gen Z trends are taken into account like this. | 我认为这是真正重要的是, Gen Z 趋势被考虑 像这样。 |
| 275 | We see this all the time on social media, how important languages are and that they're just racing now at the speed of trends. | 我们经常在社交媒体上看到这些, 语言有多重要, 它们只是以趋势的速度竞速前进。 |
| 276 | So I'm really happy to see it. | 所以,我真的很高兴看到它。 |
| 277 | Now, you run your own marketing agency. | 现在,你经营自己的营销机构。 |
| 278 | Are you and your staff all Gen Z? | 你和你的手下都是Gen Z吗? |
| 279 | Yes, we are totally all Gen Z. | 是的,我们都是Gen Z。 |
| 280 | And is that important? | 这很重要吗? |
| 281 | Is that deliberate? | 这是故意的吗? |
| 282 | Yes, it's deliberate and it's essential to the kind of work we do. | 是的,这是有意的,而且对我们的工作至关重要。 |
| 283 | We work a lot with social media and content creators and driving brand growth, especially with Gen Z. | 我们与社交媒体和内容创造者合作很多,推动品牌增长,尤其是Gen Z. |
| 284 | And you can't speak Gen Z language without being Gen Z yourself. | 而且你不会说Gen Z语言 没有Gen Z自己。 |
| 285 | So it's been essential for us. | 所以这对我们来说很重要 |
| 286 | I just wonder whether there is sort of silos here in terms of the types of people that we work with and employ in terms of what you're doing. | 我只是在想,从我们合作和雇用的人的种类来看,这里是否有某种仓位。 |
| 287 | I think it's definitely an advantage to work with Gen Z. | 我觉得和Gen Z合作肯定是个优势 |
| 288 | What's difficult is when you're working, you know, between Gen Z and non-Gen Z. | 困难的是在工作的时候,你知道,在Gen Z与非Gen Z之间. |
| 289 | And this interview has really inspired me to write a dictionary for my team for Gen Z into corporate and corporate into Gen Z. | 此次采访激励我为我的团队写一本字典, 供Gen Z进入公司和公司进入Gen Z. |
| 290 | There's words like boil the ocean that just go straight over Gen Z's head at some points, I feel. | 有像煮大海之类的词 直接从源Z的头上冲过去 我觉得 |
| 291 | Freya Fine, I'm going to make sure I get a copy of her dictionary when when it's published. | Freya Fine 出版时我一定要拿到她的字典 |
| 292 | I just want to bring you some breaking news now. | 我只是想给你带来一些突发新闻 |
| 293 | The British mobile and broadband company Virgin Media O2 has confirmed it is cutting thousands of jobs, | 英国移动和宽带公司Virgin Media O2已经证实它正在削减数千个工作, |
| 294 | halting its fibre rollout and is in talks to use its bigger rival BT's network. | 停止其纤维推出 并正在谈判 利用其更大的竞争对手BT的网络。 |
| 295 | It says it will cut around 30 percent of its total people costs with the majority of the reductions coming from non-customer facing roles. | 它说,它将削减其总人力成本的30%左右,大部分削减来自面临角色的非客户。 |
| 296 | That is the latest in business for you here on BBC News. | 这是BBC新闻的最新消息 |
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