HSK 5 Reading

你被套牢了吗？

Are You Locked In?

Imagine you’re standing on a street corner, 30 minutes late, still waiting for a taxi that never comes. The walk to the subway would have taken 15 minutes. You knew that. But you stayed. Why? Because letting go of the time you already spent felt harder than spending more. This is the story of every bad investment, every late departure, every moment we stay too long. Here comes he painful question: what’s the one thing in your life right now that you should have walked away from yesterday?

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下班时正是车流量高峰，你急着赶一个约会。从办公室走到地铁站需要15分钟，于是你决定打车。10分钟过去了，没有一辆出租车停在你的面前，你决定继续等待。15分钟后，你开始烦躁不安。但通常你还会继续等下去，因为已经等了这么久，你心存侥幸：也许再多等一分钟，车子就会来。可直到半个小时后，你仍然站在马路上等待，你感到万分后悔——早知道这样，就该选择步行15分钟去地铁站。 ➕

Xiàbān shí zhèngshì chēliúliàng gāofēng, nǐ jízhe gǎn yí ge yuēhuì. Cóng bàngōngshì zǒu dào dìtiě zhàn xūyào shíwǔ fēnzhōng, yúshì nǐ juédìng dǎ chē. Shí fēnzhōng guòqù le, méiyǒu yí liàng chūzūchē tíng zài nǐ de miànqián, nǐ juédìng jìxù děngdài. Shíwǔ fēnzhōng hòu, nǐ kāishǐ fánzào bù’ān. Dàn tōngcháng nǐ hái huì jìxù děng xiàqù, yīnwèi yǐjīng děng le zhème jiǔ, nǐ xīncún jiǎoxìng: yěxǔ zài duō děng yì fēnzhōng, chēzi jiù huì lái. Kě zhídào bàn ge xiǎoshí hòu, nǐ réngrán zhàn zài mǎlù shàng děngdài, nǐ gǎndào wànfēn hòuhuǐ —— zǎo zhīdào zhèyàng, jiù gāi xuǎnzé bùxíng shíwǔ fēnzhōng qù dìtiě zhàn.

After work, right at rush hour, you’re in a hurry to make an appointment. It takes 15 minutes to walk from the office to the subway, so you decide to take a taxi. Ten minutes pass, but no taxi stops in front of you, so you decide to keep waiting. After 15 minutes, you start to feel restless and anxious. But usually you keep waiting anyway, because you’ve already waited so long — you hold on to a faint hope: maybe one more minute and a car will come. But until half an hour passes, you’re still standing on the road, feeling deeply regretful. If you had known, you should have chosen to walk the 15 minutes to the subway station.

这样的情况，估计大多数人都经历过。无法放弃已经付出的时间，结果投入了更多的时间。这与投资中的“ 套牢”多么相似啊：已经亏损了，却没有及早卖出，结果赔了更多。 ➕

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很多投资者在进行某项投资时，最先想到的往往是能赚多少，而不是会亏多少。殊不知，事实上，必须为每一笔买卖事先定一个“止损线”，“止损线”也许就是你的生命线。 ➕

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我们必须要先学会如何输钱，这比学会如何赢钱更为重要。即使你只搞对一半儿，你也是赢家，关键在于每次搞错的时候，要将损失减到最少。 ➕

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你被套牢了吗？