His firm has purchased streams of cash - or discounted cash flows - from people who have been awarded large sums of money, like lottery winnings or court settlements, but receive them as annuities.

他的公司已经从那些通过中奖、官司补偿等方式获得大量现金，而且只是准备把这些钱作为养老金的人们手中购买了现金流或按现值计算的现金流。

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This desired rate of return is the rate at which the cash flows are discounted to present dollars.

这个期望回报率是现金流贴现为美元的比率。

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Discounted cash flow (DCF) method: a type of analysis based on discounting cash flows to the present by a given discount rate.

现金流量贴现法(简写为dcf)：一种根据给定的贴现率将现金流量折成现值的分析方法。

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It's hard to think of discounted cash flows when a company is still in the red (or voraciously consuming capital).

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