布莱斯金融英语笔记

2021年1月22日发(作者：submission)
Unit1

Money
Figures

American oil
billionaire J.
Paul Getty
has a very famous saying, that is
“
If you can actually count
your money, then you are not really a rich man.
”

美国的银行业大亨
J.
Paul Getty
曾经说过一句
话：如果你的钱是可以数得清楚的，那么你就不是一个真正的富人。
Well,
the
sentence
is
interesting, but actually we must know how to count the money before we get rich, especially in
English. So, in today
’
s class, we would first learn to say English numbers.


Most
people
working
in
finance,
whether
it
is
in
accountancy,
banking,
broking,
investment,
insurance, or whatever, spend a lot of time dealing with numbers.



I.
Let’s
talk about the different ways to say 0 in English. Usually, we have the following 5 ways to
say 0 in English. They are: OH, ZERO, LOVE, NOUGHT, NIL!


We say
oh
after a decimal point













6.03







six point
oh
three
in telephone numbers












84 08 32 13

eight four
oh
eight three two one three
in bus numbers

















No. 708




get the seven
oh
eight
in hotel room numbers











Room 308


I'm in room three
oh
eight.
in years

























1905







nineteen oh five
We say nought




before the decimal point










0.201






nought point two oh one
We say zero





for the number

















0










t
he number zero




for temperature

















-5~C





five degrees below zero
We say nil








in football scores















5-0







Spain won five nil.
We say love








in tennis






















15- 0






The score is fifteen love.

Now say the following:
1.

The exact figure is 0.002.

a)

before the decimal point, read nought;

b)

after a decimal point, read oh.

Nought point oh oh two.

2.

Can you get back to me on 010
–
5175
–
0123 ? I'll be here all morning.

in telephone numbers, say oh.


Oh one oh five one seven five oh one two three
3.

Can you put that on my bill? I'm in room 804.


in hotel room numbers, say oh. Eight oh four
4.

The temperature in north-east China is very low in winter. Usually, it's 20 degrees below 0!

for temperature, say zero.

5.
Basically, tennis scoring proceeds from 0 to 15 to 30 to 40 to game.


love
（
0
）
, fifteen
（
15
）
, thirty
（
30
）
, forty
（
40
）
, game
（胜局）
。

6.

The result of the game was 3
–
0

three-nil