赌博与投资一样吗
Have you been reading or watching the news lately? I bet you know or you are aware of what is happening with the stock market in China. Maybe you are one of the persons that has been affected by it with this incredible decrease by it in the last few weeks.
你最近是否有阅读或者看新闻?我可以肯定你已经知到中国股市正在发生什么变化。在过去的几周里,股市发生了难以置信的下滑,或者你就是受影响的其中一人。
I was watching the news yesterday and found out that the stock market in China has decreased so much that more than 3.2 trillion RMB has been disappeared in less than 6 weeks. But how much it is 3.2 trillion? To put that into perspective first let’s find out how many zeros one trillion has. It is a one followed by 12 zeros: 1,000,000,000,000!
我昨天看了新闻,才发现股市下滑了这么多,在过去不够6周的时间里蒸发了超过3.2万亿元人民币。3.2万亿有多少?要直观地表达“万亿”这个词语,让我们看看这个数字后面有多少个零。12个!1000,000,000,000!
Pretty incredible right? Well then, you take that amount and multiply it by 3. To make it even more interesting let me give you a few more comparisons of how much money this is:
It is more than 10 times the entire GDP of Greece (The Country), it is also equivalent of 5 times more than the entire value of all the ceramic factories in China combined.
很难以置信对不对?对的,你还要在这个数字上乘以3。为了更好地表达这到底有多少钱,让我给你们做一些比较:
它是希腊整个国家GDP的十倍有多,它也相当于中国整个陶瓷行业5倍以上的生产总值。
I hope you are not one of the persons that is suffering with the stock market collapse, but more than likely some of you may. I hope is not too bad for any of you.
我希望你不是在这股灾的其中一人,即使你是其中一员,我也希望你不会有太大的损失。
Back to the point: What is the difference between gambling and investing?
言归正传:赌博和投资有什么不一样?
Comparisons are often done between these two activities but I have never seen a good explanation of the definitions and their differences. If you look in the dictionary for their definitions they look more or less like this:
这两者间经常被作比较,但是我还没有看到一个很好的解释来定义他们之间的差异。如果你从字典中看,它们是这样解释的:
GAMBLING: To bet on an uncertain result, as of a contest. To take a risk in the hope of gaining an advantage or a benefit.
赌博:在一个不确定的结果上进行打赌,如竞赛。冒风险以获得利益或者好处。
INVEST: To commit money or capital in order to gain a future financial return
投资:需要提入资金或者资本,以获得未来的财务回报。
Their difference is not clear. The definition for gambling could apply just as well to investing, and vice-versa.
它们之间的差异并不明显,赌博的定义可以适用同样很好地投资,反之亦然。
Is investing a good thing and gambling a bad thing?
那投资就是一件好事,赌博就是一件坏事?
I think that people that invest in the stock market are not merely betting on which companies will succeed, they are only providing the capital to those companies that need to accomplish their goals. So gambling could be classified as an investing type activity that is not productive.
我认为投资股市的人不只是押注于哪家公司会成功,因为股民只是向那些需要完成他们的目标的公司提供资金。因此,赌博可以被归类为一种投资活动,而不是生产性的活动。
When you invest your odds may seem to be slightly in your favor and in gambling the odds are slightly against you.
当你做投资时,你看起来似乎还有那么一点胜算的几率,而赌博时,这个胜算的几率总是与你背道而行。
So in other words an investment is simply a gamble in which you try to manage to tilt the odds in your favor.
换句话说,投资也是赌博,只是你试图向你关注的事物倾斜。
Is gambling classified as entertainment and investing as business?
那么赌博被归类为娱乐,而投资归类为生意吗?
Anyway, it is confusing the more I write and try to explain, and the more I do it the more that it seems to be the same.
好吧,好像我越是解释越混乱,说得越多,看上去越相似。
I personally do not invest in the stock market but instead I have gambled myself a few times on a casino, not a lot of money but I have done it many times, and the key decision you have to make when you are gambling is to decide when to retire, when to stop, either when you are winning or when you are losing.
我个人并没投资股市,但是却在赌场里赌过几次,虽然不是很多钱。赌博最关键的是,你要决定什么时候退出,什么时候停止,哪怕在你正处于赢或者输的时候。
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