经典重译之股票大作手回忆录(2)
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原文(2):
But a busy market did not keep me from thinking about the work．Those quotations did not represent prices of stocks to me，so many dollars per share．They were numbers．Of course，they meant something．They were always changing．It was all I had to be interested in—the changes．Why did they change？I didn’t know．I didn’t care．I didn’t think about that．I simply saw that they changed．That was all I had to think about five hours every day and two on Saturdays：that they were always changing．
That is how I first came to be interested in the behaviour of prices．I had a very good memory for figures．I could remember in detail how the prices had acted on the previous day，just before they went up or down．My fondness for mental arithmetic came in very handy．
I noticed that in advances as well as declines，stock prices were apt to show certain habits，so to speak．There was no end of parallel cases and these made precedents to guide me．I was only fourteen，but after I I had taken hundreds of observations in my mind I found myself testing their accuracy，comparing the behaviour of stocks today with other days．It was not long before I was anticipating movements in prices．My only guide，as I say，was their past performances．I carried the“dope sheets”in my mind．I looked for stock prices to run on form．I had“clocked”them．You know what I mean．
我的译文(2):
但不管股票市场有多热闹，并不会分散我对工作的注意力，也不会影响我的工作效率。
对我的工作来说，我不用考虑那些数字所代表的股价:即每股价格为多少美元。在我的眼里，它们就只是数字而已。
在工作时，这些数字对我唯一的意义，那就是它们总是在不断的变化！
因为工作性质，我必须关注它们的变化。至于它们为什么变化，我不知道！我没工夫关注这个，我也没工夫考虑这个问题。
( 每周有五天)，每天5个小时，周六还有两小时，在这些开市的时段里，我必须时刻关注并考虑的只有：它们总是在不断的变化！
这就是我第一次开始关注价格波动的来龙去脉。
我对数字有很好的记忆力。每天快开市时，在股价数字开始上涨或下跌之前，我仍然能清楚的记得，前一天它是如何变化的。我酷爱的心算，此时用起来得心应手。
我注意到，无论上涨还是下跌，股价会呈现某种惯性的表现(译者注：也就是所谓的模式)，正是这些相似的迹象在引导着我。(译者注: 他靠的从来不是什么内幕消息。)
按照我自己的想法，我有意识的去观察了数百回，把某天的行情与之前做比较，以测试我想法的准确性。
在我预测股价涨跌之前，这种心算式的测试，用不了多长时间，虽然那时我只有14岁。
我唯一的行动指南，就是股价数字的历史表现，我寻找的是价格数字运行的模式，它们就是我心目中的‘内幕消息‘，我已经把它们标记在脑子里了(译者注：这一句根据网友的解惑而添加)，但它们不是你们所谓的‘内幕消息‘。你懂的。
我的评注(2):
针对 “I had clocked them ”，网友给我的进一步解说是:
俗语中clock it 指的是留意到或看到某事物，你可以经过一个物件很多次，却不会留意甚至没看到它，而clock it 就是注意，留意，看到它了，用在这也就更明确说明作者从小与别人不同，其他记价员也许只是机械地记录，他却会留意他们的变化。
原文引用依据:
Edwin Lefèvre: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
But a busy market did not keep me from thinking about the work．Those quotations did not represent prices of stocks to me，so many dollars per share．They were numbers．Of course，they meant something．They were always changing．It was all I had to be interested in—the changes．Why did they change？I didn’t know．I didn’t care．I didn’t think about that．I simply saw that they changed．That was all I had to think about five hours every day and two on Saturdays：that they were always changing．
That is how I first came to be interested in the behaviour of prices．I had a very good memory for figures．I could remember in detail how the prices had acted on the previous day，just before they went up or down．My fondness for mental arithmetic came in very handy．
I noticed that in advances as well as declines，stock prices were apt to show certain habits，so to speak．There was no end of parallel cases and these made precedents to guide me．I was only fourteen，but after I I had taken hundreds of observations in my mind I found myself testing their accuracy，comparing the behaviour of stocks today with other days．It was not long before I was anticipating movements in prices．My only guide，as I say，was their past performances．I carried the“dope sheets”in my mind．I looked for stock prices to run on form．I had“clocked”them．You know what I mean．
我的译文(2):
但不管股票市场有多热闹，并不会分散我对工作的注意力，也不会影响我的工作效率。
对我的工作来说，我不用考虑那些数字所代表的股价:即每股价格为多少美元。在我的眼里，它们就只是数字而已。
在工作时，这些数字对我唯一的意义，那就是它们总是在不断的变化！
因为工作性质，我必须关注它们的变化。至于它们为什么变化，我不知道！我没工夫关注这个，我也没工夫考虑这个问题。
( 每周有五天)，每天5个小时，周六还有两小时，在这些开市的时段里，我必须时刻关注并考虑的只有：它们总是在不断的变化！
这就是我第一次开始关注价格波动的来龙去脉。
我对数字有很好的记忆力。每天快开市时，在股价数字开始上涨或下跌之前，我仍然能清楚的记得，前一天它是如何变化的。我酷爱的心算，此时用起来得心应手。
我注意到，无论上涨还是下跌，股价会呈现某种惯性的表现(译者注：也就是所谓的模式)，正是这些相似的迹象在引导着我。(译者注: 他靠的从来不是什么内幕消息。)
按照我自己的想法，我有意识的去观察了数百回，把某天的行情与之前做比较，以测试我想法的准确性。
在我预测股价涨跌之前，这种心算式的测试，用不了多长时间，虽然那时我只有14岁。
我唯一的行动指南，就是股价数字的历史表现，我寻找的是价格数字运行的模式，它们就是我心目中的‘内幕消息‘，我已经把它们标记在脑子里了(译者注：这一句根据网友的解惑而添加)，但它们不是你们所谓的‘内幕消息‘。你懂的。
我的评注(2):
针对 “I had clocked them ”，网友给我的进一步解说是:
俗语中clock it 指的是留意到或看到某事物，你可以经过一个物件很多次，却不会留意甚至没看到它，而clock it 就是注意，留意，看到它了，用在这也就更明确说明作者从小与别人不同，其他记价员也许只是机械地记录，他却会留意他们的变化。
原文引用依据:
Edwin Lefèvre: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
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