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Those who profit from the misery of others are not often popular.
那些從別人的苦難中獲益的人通都不受歡迎。
Short-sellers, who try to make money by selling borrowed shares and buying them back later at a lower price, have long been viewed with suspicion.
通過出售借入股票并以更低價買回的賣空型投資者一直以來都有嫌疑。
They are blamed for exacerbating price falls so that they can reap bigger returns. In times of market stress authorities often ban them.
人們指責他們加劇價格下跌以便獲得更大的回報。在市場飽受壓力的時期，官方經常會明令禁止賣空。
In 1610 regulators in Amsterdam forbade short-selling, blaming it for a fall in the value of the Dutch East India Company.
1610年，阿姆斯特丹監管者禁止賣空，指責這種行為導致荷蘭東印度公司市值下跌。
Two centuries later Napoleon prohibited it as an act of treason.
兩百年后，拿破侖將其作為一種叛國行為并明令禁止。
On February 18th BaFin, Germany's financial regulator, banned investors from taking new net short positions in Wirecard,
2月18日，德國金融監管者，德國聯邦金融監管局禁止投資者對Wirecard建立新的空頭頭寸，
a German digital-payments firm, after its share price fell by over 40% in under three weeks.
這是一家德國數字支付公司，此前該公司股票價格在不到三周內下跌超過40%。
The crash marked a swift change in its fortunes.
此次暴跌標志著其市值的驟變。
In 2018 Wirecard displaced Commerzbank, a 149-year-old lender, in the DAX 30, an index of Germany's biggest firms.
2018年，Wirecard在德國DAX30指數（德國最大公司的指數）中取代了149年的貸款方Commerzbank。
Wirecard was worth 20.7bn euro ($23.6bn) on January 29th, just before the Financial Times reported that Edo Kurniawan,
1月29日，Wirecard市值為207億歐元（236美元），此前《金融時報》剛剛報道稱該公司新加坡辦公室的
a senior executive in the company's Singapore office, was suspected of using fraudulent accounting techniques to inflate reported revenues.
一名高管Edo Kurniawan涉嫌利用欺騙性賬目手段抬高報告收入。
The share price slid. On February 1st it fell further when the same newspaper reported
公司股價下滑。2月1日，股價進一步下跌，當時該報還報道稱
that Rajah & Tann, a law firm commissioned by Wirecard to investigate the allegations,
受Wirecard委托調查這些指控的法律公司Rajah & Tann
had presented preliminary evidence to senior management in May 2018 suggesting the offences were a part of a pattern of book-padding.
在2018年5月就向高級管理層提交了初步證據，這表明這些違規行為只是賬目填充模式的一部分。
On February 8th, as Wirecard's Singapore office was visited by the police, its market value fell to 11.7bn euro.
2月8日，警察來訪Wirecard新加坡辦公室，公司市值下跌至117億歐元。
The firm refutes the reports, claiming that the Financial Times has acted unethically.
公司駁斥該報的報道，稱《金融時報》的行為不道德。
Its management says an internal investigation is ongoing, and that a second,
其管理層表示，正在進行內部調查，
external investigation by Rajah & Tann is still under way and has produced "no conclusive evidence of criminal misconduct".
Rajah & Tann的第二次外部調查仍在進行當中并且“沒有證據表明存在犯罪行為”。
The firm says it is working closely with the police in Singapore. It says it plans to take legal action against the Financial Times.
該公司稱正在和新加坡警察密切合作，并表示公司計劃起訴《金融時報》。
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