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Warren was, at that time,dealing with small companies,

沃伦当时与小公司谈生意

and his investments often were to buy a company that you could figure was a discarded cigar butt,

他的投资通常是购买形如烟头的公司

but it had one more smoke in it,

但是有人还在吸

and he wanted to buy at the right time to be able to benefit from the one smoke.

他想要在正确的时候买 从那个抽烟的人身上获利

The first partnership started with 105,100 dollars.

合伙企业以105100美元起步

I put up the 100, and the other people put up the 105,000.

我投入100 其他人投入105000

And then at the start of 1962, I moved to Kiewit Plaza.

接着在1962年之初 我搬到了基伟大厦

And by the time I moved to Kiewit Plaza, we had 7 million dollars invested,and a fair amount was profits.

在我们搬到基伟大厦之时 我们已经投资了700万美元 盈利数量可观

I was then renting a house. I never owned a house to that point.

接着我租了一套房子 我那时没有房子

And then two years later,I bought the house I live in today in 1958.

两年后 我1958年买下了我现在住的房子

We had three children, Susie and I.

我们有三个孩子 还有苏西和我

And we had 'em young, incidentally, which was I think was a very good thing.

我们年轻时生了他们 我觉得很好

My daughter Susie was born here.

我的女儿苏西在这里出生

I named her Susie just like that, as soon as I looked at her,because she looked just like her mother,And she was a cinch.

我看到她时我就给她起了苏西这个名字 因为她长得像她的母亲 她是小事一桩

And then Howie was, you know, this absolute bundle of energy,

而豪伊就拥有相当的能量了

which made things very difficult for big Susie for a while.

对我妻子苏西就很困难

Peter again reverted back to Susie's personality,and he was an easy child.

皮特则又回到苏西的个性 他是个简单的孩子

词汇解析

1、benefit

好处；益处；裨益

Each family farms individually and reaps the benefit of its labor.

各家经营各自的农场，收获各自的劳动成果。

I'm a great believer in the benefits of this form of therapy.

我坚信这种治疗形式非常有益。

（对…有）好处，帮助

This could now work to Albania's benefit.

这种情况目前对阿尔巴尼亚有利。

I hope what I have written will be of benefit to someone else who may feel the same way.

我希望我所写的内容能对其他和我有同感的人有所裨益。

获益；对…有益；有利于

Both sides have benefited from the talks.

双方都从谈判中获益。

a variety of government programs benefiting children.

有益于儿童的各种政府项目

2、put up

建造；搭建；设置

Protesters have been putting up barricades across a number of major intersections.

抗议者们在许多主要的十字路口设置了路障。

He was putting up a new fence at his home.

他正在为自己家搭建新的篱笆墙。

张贴；公布

They're putting new street signs up.

他们正在悬挂新的路标。

The teacher training college put up a plaque to the college's founder.

那所教师培训学院为该学院的创立者立了一块纪念牌匾。

进行（抵抗）

In the end the Kurds surrendered without putting up any resistance.

最后库尔德人没有作任何抵抗就投降了。

He'd put up a real fight to keep you there.

他曾努力争取让你留在那儿。