商品条码
If President George Bush was amazed by the bar code scanners he saw last month at the National Grocers Association convention in Orlando,
假如布什总统上个月在奥兰多的全国超市协会年会中，曾为条码扫描机大惊小怪的话，
he would be truly astounded by some of the technology found in state-of-the-art supermarkets like the Food Emporium.
那他到了像Food Emporium这种科技已臻化境的超市，才真的会大吃一惊了。
Each ScanFone unit,which can funciton as a regular telephone,
每一具ScanFone都可当普通电话使用，
features a magnetic-stripe credit card reader and a light pen to scan bar codes.
但它还有两项特色：可读磁条式信用卡的读卡机与扫描条码的光笔。
blockbuster
大轰动
But without the limitless pots of cash that the now shrunken junk-bond market once provided,
但是已经萎缩的垃圾债券市场，不能再像以前一样无限制地提供现金，
the investment bankers can on longer arrange the sort of blockbuster buyouts that produced breathtaking profits for Wall Street in the past decade.
投资银行也无法再像过去十年一样，安排轰动武林的收购行动，然后替华尔街赚进令人目瞪口呆的利润。
A film out of nowhere,with a nobody star,can send people out happy-and make the producers of Home Alone rich.
一部用了无名小卒主演的默默无闻电影，可以让观众心满意足地走出电影院，也让《小鬼当家》的制作人发了大财。
Conversely,a blockbuster wannabe like Redford’s Havana grossed less in the U.S.than,say,the Italian import Cinema Paradise.
相反的，罗伯特•雷德福理应轰动的电影《哈瓦那》，在美国的票房还比不上来自意大利的《天堂影院》。
business cycle
景气循环
"Reagan was a goner,right?"says a Clinton adviser."But then the business cycle took an upturn,and he won big a year later,
克林顿的一个顾问说：“里根已经完了，对不对?可是景气循环回升，于是他第二又大败竞选对手。
Reagan’s ups and downs remind us to take the long view,
里根的起伏提醒我们要看长远。
Bill Clinton won’t be dead until he’s laid out with his sax."
在克林顿萨克斯风吹到昏倒以前，他还死不了。”
A recession is a standard contraction of the business cycle.
不景气是景气循环中标准的萎缩过程。
Things heat up;the Fed throttles back to restrain inflation.A depression,by contrast,has to do with debt.
因为经济过热，联邦储备银行董事会就会踩刹车以避免通货膨胀。相对的，萧条是跟债务有关。
cartel
卡特尔
Bootlegged stones from Angola and Russia are cutting out the De Beers cartel
自安哥拉与俄罗斯走私出来的钻石对De Beers钻石卡特尔损伤极大，
and threatening to subvert the value of the most precious of gems.
也对这种最珍贵的宝石的价位造成威胁。
cash cow
摇钱树
That would place the pension burden mainly on ACF Industries,
这会将挪用退休基金的压力，加诸ACF工业。
the Missouri-based railcar leasing company that Icahn uses as his cash cow to fund outside investment activities.
这家密苏里州的轨道车辆租凭公司是Icahn的摇钱树，专门用来资助他其他的投资事业。
These,and a great gut for pop culture,served him well as chairman of Paramount Picutres from 1974 to ’84 when it produced goldencalf movies
这些以及他对大众文化精准的直觉，使得他在派拉蒙的1974至1984十年任内创造了轰动的电影
(Grease,Flashdance)and cash cow TV series.(TAXI,Cheers).
《油脂》、《闪舞》以及捞进大把银子的电视剧《出租车》、《欢乐酒店》。
cashless society
无现金社会
Says Keith Kendrick,senior vice president of marketing for Master Card:
万事达卡资深行销副总裁Keith Kendrick说：
"Though people have talked for a long time about the cashless society,
“虽然我们已经高谈无现金社会很久了，
we are by no means all the way there."
但是我们离那个地步还很远呢!”
