"I mean,he hands over 80 percent of his low-enriched uranium: that means for the next 13 months he will not be able to go down that path, meaning that he will lose a lot of leverage with the West,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Its meaning will not be evident to you on a first reading.

其中意涵在你首度阅读时,并不明显。

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That is, share repurchase can change the units of measurement in a security and companies have to decide how leveraged the stock will be, which changes the stock price--leverage, meaning how much debt the company takes on.

即 股票的购回会改变,已发行股票的单位数量,公司需要决定,股票的杠杆效用是多少,杠杆会改变股价,杠杆指的是公司举债的多少

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