The friends immediately bought Lotus shares and then -that was June 2--by June 5, twenty-five people had bought -had spent a half a million dollars to buy on this tip.

他的朋友们立刻购买了莲花公司的股票,那天是6月2号,截至6月5号,一共有25个人,因为小道消息购买了股票,资金达到50万

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That was the corporation that produced the first spreadsheet program.

莲花公司是,第一个开发电子数据表软件的公司

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Remember Lotus?

知道莲花公司吗

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IBM is going to take over Lotus or try to take over Lotus.

BM正准备收购莲花

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It was in 1995, a secretary at IBM Corporation was asked to xerox some documents by her boss and the documents described a proposed takeover of Lotus Corporation.

那是在1995年,IBM的一个秘书,帮他老板复印一份文件,文件有关,IBM计划收购莲花公司的计划

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He did nothing except tell two friends the story -he didn't buy shares, he just told two friends, my wife says that IBM is going to take over Lotus.

他把这条消息告诉了两个朋友,并没有去购买股票,只是跟朋友说,我太太说IBM要收购莲花公司

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