1. By announcing this, it joined more than 300 other U.S. companies that had admitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that they had made payments of one kind or another — bribes, extra discounts, etc. — in recent years.
    这一事实的披露，使克莱斯勒与其他300多家美国公司一样，向美国证券交易委员会承认自己近年曾有过某种形式的支出，像贿赂、额外打折等等。

2. We did not dismiss these people; rather, we converted them to securities sales people and some of these are now our leading sales people.
    但我们并没有解雇他们；相反，我们将他们转为证券销售人员，其中有些如今成了这方面的骨干。

3. In my field — finance and securities — I am often asked by Westerners how Nomura Securities has managed to escape the paper traffic jam that American firms have faced.
    在我的工作领域——金融和证券业，常有西方人问我，野村证券公司是如何避免美国公司所面临的交易单流通堵塞的。