商品條碼
If President George Bush was amazed by the bar code scanners he saw last month at the National Grocers Association convention in Orlando,
假如布什總統上個月在奧蘭多的全國超市協會年會中，曾為條碼掃描機大驚小怪的話，
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這種科技已臻化境的超市，才真的會大吃一驚了。
Each ScanFone unit,which can funciton as a regular telephone,
每一具ScanFone都可當普通電話使用，
features a magnetic-stripe credit card reader and a light pen to scan bar codes.
但它還有兩項特色：可讀磁條式信用卡的讀卡機與掃描條碼的光筆。
blockbuster
大轟動
But without the limitless pots of cash that the now shrunken junk-bond market once provided,
但是已經萎縮的垃圾債券市場，不能再像以前一樣無限制地提供現金，
the investment bankers can on longer arrange the sort of blockbuster buyouts that produced breathtaking profits for Wall Street in the past decade.
投資銀行也無法再像過去十年一樣，安排轟動武林的收購行動，然后替華爾街賺進令人目瞪口呆的利潤。
A film out of nowhere,with a nobody star,can send people out happy-and make the producers of Home Alone rich.
一部用了無名小卒主演的默默無聞電影，可以讓觀眾心滿意足地走出電影院，也讓《小鬼當家》的制作人發了大財。
Conversely,a blockbuster wannabe like Redford’s Havana grossed less in the U.S.than,say,the Italian import Cinema Paradise.
相反的，羅伯特?雷德福理應轟動的電影《哈瓦那》，在美國的票房還比不上來自意大利的《天堂影院》。
business cycle
景氣循環
"Reagan was a goner,right?"says a Clinton adviser."But then the business cycle took an upturn,and he won big a year later,
克林頓的一個顧問說：“里根已經完了，對不對?可是景氣循環回升，于是他第二又大敗競選對手。
Reagan’s ups and downs remind us to take the long view,
里根的起伏提醒我們要看長遠。
Bill Clinton won’t be dead until he’s laid out with his sax."
在克林頓薩克斯風吹到昏倒以前，他還死不了。”
A recession is a standard contraction of the business cycle.
不景氣是景氣循環中標準的萎縮過程。
Things heat up;the Fed throttles back to restrain inflation.A depression,by contrast,has to do with debt.
因為經濟過熱，聯邦儲備銀行董事會就會踩剎車以避免通貨膨脹。相對的，蕭條是跟債務有關。
cartel
卡特爾
Bootlegged stones from Angola and Russia are cutting out the De Beers cartel
自安哥拉與俄羅斯走私出來的鉆石對De Beers鉆石卡特爾損傷極大，
and threatening to subvert the value of the most precious of gems.
也對這種最珍貴的寶石的價位造成威脅。
cash cow
搖錢樹
That would place the pension burden mainly on ACF Industries,
這會將挪用退休基金的壓力，加諸ACF工業。
the Missouri-based railcar leasing company that Icahn uses as his cash cow to fund outside investment activities.
這家密蘇里州的軌道車輛租憑公司是Icahn的搖錢樹，專門用來資助他其他的投資事業。
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
這些以及他對大眾文化精準的直覺，使得他在派拉蒙的1974至1984十年任內創造了轟動的電影
(Grease,Flashdance)and cash cow TV series.(TAXI,Cheers).
《油脂》、《閃舞》以及撈進大把銀子的電視劇《出租車》、《歡樂酒店》。
cashless society
無現金社會
Says Keith Kendrick,senior vice president of marketing for Master Card:
萬事達卡資深行銷副總裁Keith Kendrick說：
"Though people have talked for a long time about the cashless society,
“雖然我們已經高談無現金社會很久了，
we are by no means all the way there."
但是我們離那個地步還很遠呢!”
