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A second complication arising from the merger is that the 1977 figures shown in this report are different from the 1977 figures shown in the report we mailed to you last year. Accounting convention requires that when two entities such as Diversified and Berkshire are merged, all financial data subsequently must be presented as if the companies had been merged at the time they were formed rather than just recently. So the enclosed financial statements, in effect, pretend that in 1977 the Diversified-Berkshire merger already had taken place, even though the actual merger date was December 30, 1978. This shifting base makes comparative commentary confusing and, from time to time in our narrative report, we will talk of figures and performance for Berkshire shareholders as historically reported to you rather than as restated after the Diversified merger.

合并案所引发的第二项影响则是今年报表中秀出1977年的数字与去年提供给各位同一年度的数字有所不同，会计原则要求当像多元零售与伯克希尔这样二个独立个体合并时，所有报告的财务数字都必须假设这两家公司原本就在一起，所以后续呈现所有数字，是假设这两家公司早在1977年就已经合并，虽然真正合并的日期是1978年的12月30日，这样的改变使得比较性的评论很容易产生混淆，因为以往的报告中，我们告诉各位的都是伯克希尔的历史记录，而非依照合并多元零售后重新修正数字。

Pierian : a . belonging to Pieria, a region of ancient Macedonia, the reputed home of the Muses, hence allusively in reference to poetry and learning.

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At one's worst Back 意群提示 Anyone, once involved in the river of love, be involved in the river of love / see one at always wishes his sweetheart to see him at his one's best / rather than best rather than at his worst.

新视野 -短语应用任何人一旦被卷入爱河，任何人一旦被卷入爱河，短总希望心上人看到自己语最差的时候；最差的时候；最糟最好的一面，最好的一面，而不是最逆译糕的时候糟的一面。

"The reason we're losing natural capital is because it's free," says Ed Barbier, noting that we often think of conservation in terms of its costs rather than its value, and regard manufactured goods in terms of value rather than their environmental costs.

Ed Barbier认为我们经常从自然的损耗而不是它的价值来考虑保护环境，而对于制成品，我们考虑的是它的价值而非它对大自然的损耗。

Through the analysis of specific historical facts, we can obviously find that the incident in 1327 is just a traditional coup d'etat rather than "constitutional revolution" in the modern sense. The impeachment case in 1376 was sprung from conflicts among the noble groups. The impeachment procedure was not standardized, and the outcome lack of effective protection and the constitutional impact was very limited. The incident in 1399 was just Henry Bolingbroke usurp the throne by force, taking advantage of Richard II deserted circumstance, which had nothing to do with the pursuit democratic constitution or against the autocratic rule. It is still a dynasty change in the traditional sense, rather than the so-called "Lancaster Constitutional Revolution".

当然，通过具体史实的分析，我们不难发现，1327年事件只是一场传统意义上的宫廷政变，而不是近代意义上的"宪政革命"。1376年的弹劾案源于贵族之间的派别矛盾，弹劾程序并不规范，弹劾成果缺乏保障，弹劾的宪政影响也相当有限。1399年事件则是亨利·博林布罗克利用理查德二世众叛亲离之机，实行武力篡位的结果，与反对专制统治追求民主宪政无关；这仍然属于传统意义上的改朝换代，并非所谓的"兰开斯特宪政革命"。

The crisis appears to be one of solvency rather than one of liquidity; banks, along with insurers of bonds and other securities, are undercapitalized and so, as I suggested last week, require a capital infusion rather than just a purchase of frozen assets.

这个危机似乎是一种偿付能力的危机而非流动性危机；银行，还有债券及其他证券的承保人，都面临着投资不足，因此就像我上周建议过，需要一种资本注入而非仅仅购买那些冻结的资产。

I'd like to lower my head thinking of problems than look around to find beauties in frond of a lift. I'd like to fill my ears with earphone and listen to music rather than envy those sweet pairs passing by. I'd like to stay in library and dedicate myself into pabulum rather than talk about others' love story with friends in dorm.

我宁愿站在电梯前低头思考着自己的问题，而不是东张西望的去寻找美女；我宁愿将耳机塞进自己的耳朵欣赏音乐，而不是去羡慕路过的幸福情侣；我宁愿呆在图书馆一个下午去专心于精神食粮，而不是呆在宿舍和朋友们谈论别人的爱情故事。

And yet you are sure, as I am sure, that were the world confined to these hard-headed, hard-hearted, and hard-fisted methods exclusively, were there no one prompt to help a brother first, and find out afterwards whether he were worthy; no one willing to drown his private wrongs in pity for the wronger's person; no one ready to be duped many a time rather than live always on suspicion; no one glad to treat individuals passionately and impulsively rather than by general rules of prudence; the world would be an infinitely worse place than it is now to live in.

可是你也确信，如同我也确信，如果世界只剩下精明、冷酷而且吝啬的话，将没有人会急著对兄弟伸出援手，而不管是否值得为他们这麼做；也不会有人怜悯犯错的人而愿意抿除私怨；大家会只愿活在对人的猜忌中，而不会有人愿意屡屡受骗；也将不会有人充满热情对待别人而不先计算利害得失。这样的世界，一定会比现在坏上无数倍而不堪人居。

But in the East, as I have before mentioned, the ruling aristocracies tended to become religious rather than military or political, and gained, therefore, rather than lost in power; while in some instances the physical conformation of Asiatic countries had the effect of making individual communities larger and more numerous than in the West; and it is a known social law that the larger the space over which a particular set of institutions is diffused, the greater is its tenacity and vitality.

但是在东方，像我已在前面说过的，统治的贵族们逐渐倾向于变为宗教的而不是军事的或政治的，并因此不但不失去反而获得了权力；同时，在有些事例中，亚细亚国家的地理构造促使各个社会比西方社会的面积更大，人口更多；根据公认的社会规律，一套特定制度传布的空间越广，它的韧性和活力也越大。

How much better to be a king displaying his valor, or a handy tool in a house, the joy of its owner, than these false gods; or the door of a house, that keeps safe those who are within, rather than these false gods; or a wooden post in a palace, rather than these false gods!

为此虚假的神祇，还不如一个彰显自己权威的君王，或家中一个能供主人使用的器皿；虚假的神祇，还不如能使家中一切安全的房门；虚假的神祇，还不如一根支撑皇宫的木柱。

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a womans heart.

在这个世界上，男人最可贵的财产就是一个女人的心。

Some 4 years above company and divisional management experience, 6 year foreign enterprises work experience.

有4年以上的公司及部门管理经验，6年外企工作经验。