bad trade

基本解释

Executing a bad trade is worse than not trading at all.
进行一场差的交易比不交易更惨。
Do not hold on to a bad trade hoping that the price will go up.
不要手持一个糟糕的交易并且期望它能上涨。
For one, the other could nation could use that ruling as a justification for continuing a bad trade practice, making it more difficult to resolve a dispute diplomatically.
一方面，其他国家可能利用判决作为继续进行不正当贸易惯例的理由，这会使靠外交解决贸易争端更加困难。

I'm not going to put Yale's entire portfolio in Google stock, I'm not going to go back and take Yale's entire portfolio to day-trade bond futures; in part, because it would be bad for me personally.
我不会用耶鲁的全部资产买谷歌股票,我也不会,用耶鲁的全部资产买债券期货,一方面是因为,这对我个人不利
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As with other teams that lack the first-tier payrolls of the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox, a single bad trade or contract mistake could sink him.
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This was a bad trade for Krys, who because of it now has much less money to pay back victims who invested in the Madoff Ponzi scheme through the Fairfield Sentry feeders.
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Not a bad trade, all considered.
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