来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：金融市场 第20集 第20集》

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  The folks like yourself tend to get hired at firms
  在坐的各位如果受雇于我们的公司
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  like ours as analysts, which means you do statistical work.
  会从分析师做起 从事一些统计工作
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  I guess they're called now models on a computer,
  现在可能称之为计算机建模
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  which give us an idea
  建模可以给我们一个概念
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  that if any of the variables affecting these deals change,
  有哪些变量在影响我们的交易
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  how will it affect the overall earnings of the company,
  如何影响整个公司的收益
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  or cash flow of the company,
  或者公司的现金流
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  or our ability to service the debt of that company.
  或者我们的偿债能力
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  Then we can figure out, from doing that,
  通过建模我们可以计算出
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  what price we'd want to pay for the company,
  我们应对公司出价多少
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  how much debt we could safely put on it
  公司负债多少是安全的
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  so that the business doesn't get in trouble.
  项目才不会陷入风险