Does anybody know what that controversy is about?

有人知道这个争论是关于什么的吗
What does marking to market mean? Yep?

按市值计价是什么意思
Student: I believe that

我认为
it means that corporations and their accounting rules

这意味着企业及他们的会计规则
are currently required to value their assets

目前需要对他们的资产定价
at what they would fetch in the market if they were to sell them.

在以他们能够在市场上出售的价格为准
Right, but you know

对但你知道
that they've been relieved of this responsibility recently.

他们最近已经解除这一责任
Student: No, I didn't know that.

我并不知道
Well, so they've been relieved of this responsibility lately.

他们最近已经被解除这个责任
Now, why have they been relieved of it?

现在他们为什么被解除它呢
Because the thought was that the market was so panicked in the crisis

这是因为经济危机中市场恐慌