股票做手回忆录英文版利佛莫尔page1

I went to work when I was just out of grammar school.

• grammar英/ˈɡræmə(r)/美/ˈɡræmər/语法，文法；（人的）语言知识及运用能力；语法书；语法理论，语法学；（某门类知识和技能的）基本原理；<英，非正式>中学；（计算机）文法

I got a job as quotation-board boy in a stockbrokerage office.

• quotation：英/kwəʊˈteɪʃ(ə)n/美/kwoʊˈteɪʃ(ə)n/n.引语，引文；音乐（或艺术品）片段的引用；引用，引述；报价单，估价；（股票）报价，牌价；（股票）上市许可登记

I was quick at figures. At school I did three years of arithmetic in one.

• quick at：擅长：在某个领域或任务中表现出高效和迅速的能力。
• figures：英/ˈfɪɡəz/美/ˈfɪɡjərz/n. 数字；人物；图形；价格；（人的）体形；画像（figure 的复数）
• arithmetic：英/əˈrɪθmətɪk/美/əˈrɪθmətɪk/n. 算术；演算，计算；数据统计adj. 算术的

I was particularly good at mental arithmetic.

As quotation-board boy I posted the numbers on the big board in the customers’ room.

One of the customers usually sat by the ticker and called out the prices.

They couldn’t come too fast for me.

I have always remembered figures.

No trouble at all.

There were plenty of other employees in that office.

Of course I made friends with the other fellows, but the work I did, if the market was active, kept me too busy from ten a.m. to three p.m. to let me do much talking.

I don’t care for it, anyhow, during business hours.

But a busy market did not keep me from thinking about the work.

Those quotations did not represent prices of stocks to me, so many dollars per share.

They were numbers. Of course, they meant something.

They were always changing.

It was all I had to be interested in the changes.

Why did they change? I didn’t know. I didn’t care. I didn’t think about that.

I simply saw that they changed. That was all I had to think about five hours every day and two on Saturdays: that they were always changing.

That is how I first came to be interested in the behaviour of prices.

• behaviour英/bɪˈheɪvjə(r)/美/bɪˈheɪvjər/n. 行为，举止，态度；活动方式，特点，特性；习惯

I had a very good memory for figures.

I could remember in detail how the prices had acted on the previous day, just before they went up or down.

• previous：adj. 以前的，先前的；（时间或顺序上）稍前的；<非正式>过早的，过急的n. <英，非正式>前科，犯罪记录

My fondness for mental arithmetic came in very handy.

• fondness：英/ˈfɒndnəs/美/ˈfɑːndnəs/n. 爱好；喜爱
• handy：adj. 有用的，方便的，便于使用的；手巧的，有手艺的；手边的，附近的

初中刚毕业，我就出来打工了。在一家股票经纪行的营业部我找到活计，成了往黑板上抄写行情的“书童”。

我向来长于数字，上学的时候，曾经用一年时间学完了三年的数学课程。我的心算特别拿手。作为行情书童，每天在营业厅的大黑板上抄写行情数据。

当时，通常有一位客户坐在报价机旁边，大声读出最新价格。不论他读得多快，我都不会落掉。我总能把数字记得牢牢的，从来不出问题。

营业部里雇了很多伙计。一来二去，我便和他们交上了朋友，不过，我的工作太忙，从上午十点到下午三点，只要开市，就得一刻不停，难得有机会和他们聊天。当然了，开市的时候忙，我倒不在意。

开市时虽然不能停下来聊天，但是我的脑子却可以仔细琢磨手上抄写的这些数字。在我眼中，这些数字并不代表股票的价钱，多少多少美元一股什么的。它们就是数字。当然，数字也有意思。它们永远变来变去。恰恰正是数字的变化，才是我感兴趣的。

为什么数字会变化？我不知道，也不关心。那时，我并不深究就里。我只算旁观，看着它们变来变去。那便是我操心的一切了——周一到周五每天五小时，周六二小时，它们永远变来变去。

正是这段因缘，最初激起了我对价格行为的兴趣。我对数字记得很牢。要是它们今天上涨或下跌了，我能真切地回忆前一天它的价格曾经是如何变化的。我的心算特长让我在处理这些数字的时候游刃有余。