核心畫面

One way to hold this word: a hall where people came to swap pieces of companies for money. Stand in that hall and look around, and you can see all three uses at once — the building you are standing in, the body that set the rules for who may trade there, and the noisy business of trading itself. The hall is mostly empty now; the trading moved into computers. But the word kept all three, and which one a sentence means usually shows up in the small word in front of it.

可以想成這樣一個場面:一個大廳,人們帶著錢進來,換走公司的一小塊。站在那個大廳裡往四周看,這個字的三種用法會同時出現更多收起可以想成這樣一個場面:一個大廳,人們帶著錢進來,換走公司的一小塊。站在那個大廳裡往四周看,這個字的三種用法會同時出現——你腳下站著的那棟建築、訂規矩決定誰可以在這裡交易的那個機構,還有滿場喊價、買進賣出的那門生意本身。現在大廳多半空了,交易搬進了電腦裡。可是這個字把三樣都留了下來。要分辨是哪一個,看它前面那個小小的介係詞通常就夠了。

Two branches

交易的場所與機構

從看得見的大廳,到接手這個大廳職能的那個組織。

noun · B2

The building where shares are bought and sold, or where the organisation that runs the trading has its offices.

證券交易所(建築)

這門買賣本身

把注意力從大廳和組織移開,只看那個一直在發生的動作。

noun · B2

The business of buying and selling shares in companies, taken as one whole activity — the work people do in it and the way it operates.

股票買賣(這門生意)