双语阅读英语外刊精讲：众筹公司(附音频)

2018-10-19 15:01:34来源：酷学英语

　　【仿写】谁都想从热门行业与优秀雇主那里分得一杯羹。而好的公司通常不愿招收新手员工。而一些大学生则抱怨很难在竞争激烈的求职市场得到行业大咖的注意。因此，他们对能让自己提前接触社会的兼职工作热情高涨。

　　Seedrs, a British crowd-funding firm, was set up in 2012, and has backed 500 firms so far, raising a total of ￡210m ($271m) from more than 200,000 users.

　　back: V-T If you back a person or a course of action, you support them, for example, by voting for them or giving them money. 支持

　　But there are two big problems with crowd-funding.

　　First, it is risky: most startups fail.

　　Second, investments tend to be illiquid - shareholders have to wait for a takeover or a stockmarket flotation to recoup their investment.

　　illiquid: ADJ (of an asset) not easily convertible into cash（资产）不易做现金兑换的

　　takeover: N-COUNT A takeover is the act of gaining control of a company by buying more of its shares than anyone else.（公司的）收购

　　flotation/floatation: N-VAR The flotation of a company is the selling of shares in it to the public. 股票发行

　　recoup: V-T If you recoup a sum of money that you have spent or lost, you get it back. 弥补；收回

　　Seedrs is trying to solve the illiquidity problem by setting up a secondary market, where buyers and sellers can exchange shares.

　　The new market will start operating this summer, and will allow trading for a week every month, starting on the first Tuesday.

　　The price at which investors can deal will be set by Seedrs itself, based on a valuation mechanism in line with industry guidelines. 投资者能交易的价格将由Seedrs以符合行业准则的评估机制为基础自行设定。

　　in line with: 符合；与……一致

　　But there are some restrictions: only current investors in a firm will be allowed to buy shares.

　　And, to the extent that investors make a profit on a sale, Seedrs takes a 7.5% cut of the gains.

　　Crowd-funding might be even more attractive if investors could [at a click] assemble a diversified portfolio of small stakes in 20 - 30 companies rather than just one - just as those who put money into peer-to-peer lending can spread their risk across a range of borrowers.

　　portfolio: N-COUNT In finance, a portfolio is the combination of investments that a particular person or company owns. 投资组合

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