A：Can you believe the headlines?

你相信新聞報(bào)道嗎?

B：What are you reading?

你在看什么?

A：I'm reading about Michael Milliken, the Bond King.

我在看關(guān)于保債券大王麥克?米昂肯。

B：Didn't he sell worthless stocks to people or something? He got arrested for that, didn't he?

難道不是他賣給人們一些無價(jià)值的股票或什么的嗎?他因此事被捕了，是不是?

A：He got arrested all right.

他罪有應(yīng)得。

B：If I remember, he got off with a light sentence. Something like three years in a minimum-security prison.

如果我沒有記錯(cuò)，他判刑很輕。好像只在一個(gè)安全保障最低的監(jiān)獄里呆三年。

A：Yup, that's him. He made millions of dollars selling bonds to people and ended up with a pile of cash when they became useless.

是，那就是他。他賣保債券給別人，賺了數(shù)百萬美元，當(dāng)這些債券變得毫無價(jià)值時(shí)，他卻得到了一堆現(xiàn)金。

B：I think the government fined him a small amount, and he kept the rest in his foreign bank accounts. He's still a millionaire.

我認(rèn)為政府罰得很少，他把剩余的錢存在他國外的賬戶里。他還是百萬富翁。

A：That's the kind of thing in America that gets me mad. Some guy pulls off a stock scheme and makes millions while spending the bare minimum sentence in jail.

在美國那是我狂怒的一件事。一個(gè)家伙搞證券陰謀，賺取了數(shù)百萬，而只判了明顯最輕的罪入獄。

B：I know. And some poor guy that robs a liquor store makes $500 at most and ends up in jail for five to ten years.

我知道。而一個(gè)窮人搶劫一個(gè)小酒店最多得到500美元而同時(shí)判刑入獄5至10年。

A：Yup, you got it. Criminals in America do a lot better if they're white-collar thieves.

是，你說得對(duì)。在美國，如果罪犯是白領(lǐng)階層的，判罰就會(huì)輕得多。

B：So what's Michael Milliken up to these days?

那么，麥克?米昂肯現(xiàn)在在忙什么?

A：He's giving lectures on business at colleges.

他在大學(xué)做商業(yè)演講。