重點單詞：
1、contract
vi. 收縮；感染；訂約
vt. 感染；訂約；使縮短
n. 合同；婚約
The company won a hefty contract for work on Chicago's tallest building.
公司贏得了芝加哥最高建筑的重要施工合同。
2、idiot
n. 笨蛋，傻瓜；白癡
I knew I'd been an idiot to stay there.
我知道我呆在那兒很傻。
3、stock
n. 股份，股票；庫存；血統；樹干
adj. 存貨的，常備的；平凡的
vt. 進貨；備有；裝把手于…
vi. 囤積；辦貨；出新芽
Two years later, when Compaq went public, their stock was valued at $38 million.
兩年后康柏公司上市時，他們的股票價值為3800萬美元。
重點短語：
1、late for
遲到；來不及…
This could not be confirmed, but what was certain was that his efforts were too little, too late for some of his sons.
這則消息還沒有被證實，但是可以確定的是他的努力對他的幾個兒子來說已經太遲太微小了。
2、a couple of
三兩個…；一對…
A couple of old women were chinning in the corner.
幾個老太婆在角落里聊天。
3、bring over
使相信；說服；把…帶來
I didn’t know what kind of play he saw in Blockbuster—and I certainly didn’t expect the new challenges his being our biggest shareholder would bring over the next couple of years.
但我不知道他在百視達看到了什么搞頭，并且我肯定他成為我們的新股東，在接下來的幾年不會有什么新的挑戰。
考考你（翻譯）：
1、你看過這份合同了嗎？
2、如果他們是，那誰是最初把所有笨蛋都聚集起來的笨蛋呢？
3、我們簡單地提到了幾個復雜的方法，然后詳細地介紹一個最簡單的方法。
答案下期公布：
上期答案：
1、I don't know why I settled on Miami, but anyway I did.
2、He wasn't sure he'd got it right, although the theory attracted him by its logic.
3、We often drove there just to bump into one of them coming out of class.