黑莓公司(BlackBerry Ltd.)上个月宣布已签署总价47亿美元的私有化初步协议。但目前该公司仍是一家上市公司，并且依然面临智能手机业务萎缩的残酷现实。在周二公布的提交美国证券交易委员会(the Securities and Exchange Commission, 简称SEC)的文件中，黑莓大幅上调了已经十分悲观的重组支出，并且更深入地承认了该公司目前面临的挑战，甚至对其据称依然拥有主导地位的领域也不甚乐观。该公司上周公布了第二财季盈利报告。
BlackBerry Ltd. announced last month that it signed a preliminary $4.7 billion deal to go private. But for now, the company is still public and is still facing the grim realities of its shrinking smartphone business.
黑莓称，预计本财年余下时间将产生4亿美元支出，此前预计为1亿美元，主要受包括裁减40%的员工在内的大范围成本削减措施以及为未售出手机库存计入近10亿美元减记支出影响。黑莓在文件中承认，鉴于该公司寻求在今明两年进一步削减成本，其支出可能还会上升。
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission published Tuesday that expands on the company's second-quarter earnings report issued last week, BlackBerry sharply revised already bleak restructuring charges and acknowledged in more depth the challenges it is facing, even in areas it still professes to dominate.
该公司还对核心业务（向其他公司出售手机和服务的业务）做出暗淡预期。
BlackBerry said it expects to incur charges of $400 million through the rest of the fiscal year, up from $100 million, as part of a broad cost-cutting initiative that includes the reduction of 40% of its workforce and a nearly $1 billion write-down in unsold phone inventory. Those charges could increase as the company looks to cut even more costs this year and next, it acknowledged in the filing.
在承认今年早些时候推出的新手机系列销售情况不佳后，黑莓在8月份宣布将把重心重新放在企业客户上。但在周二提交SEC的文件中，该公司说，新款针对企业客户的BES 10的销售情况一直不及预期。
The company also painted a stark picture of its core business: selling phones and services to other companies.
黑莓上个月表示，已经与该公司最大股东Fairfax Financial Holdings签署意向书，根据这份意向书，Fairfax将以47亿美元的价格（合每股9美元）将黑莓私有化。
After acknowledging that a new line of phones introduced earlier this year has sold poorly, BlackBerry announced in August that it would refocus on its enterprise base. But in the securities filing released Tuesday, the company said adoption of its new business-focused offering, BES 10, has been 'slower than anticipated.'
黑莓在提交SEC的文件中首次明确承认，与Fairfax的交易可能对该公司的产品需求产生了负面影响。
BlackBerry said last month that it had signed a letter of intent with Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., the company's largest shareholder, to be taken private for $4.7 billion, or $9 a share.
投资者对这一私有化交易是否真的能以这样的价格完成持怀疑态度，并将黑莓股价打压至8美元以下，Fairfax的尽职调查截止日期是11月4日。
In the SEC filing, the company for the first time explicitly acknowledges that the Fairfax deal 'may have negatively impacted demand for the company's products.'
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- preliminary [pri´liminəri] a.初步的 n.预赛 (高中英语单词)
- billion [´biljən] num.万亿 (高中英语单词)
- initiative [i´niʃiətiv] n.主动权；首创精神 (高中英语单词)
- adoption [ə´dɔpʃən] n.采用；收养 (高中英语单词)
- offering [´ɔfəriŋ] n.提供；礼物；捐献 (高中英语单词)
- blackberry [´blækbəri] n.黑莓 (英语四级单词)
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- earnings [´ə:niŋz] n.收益；报酬；获得 (英语六级单词)
- fiscal [´fiskəl] a.财政的 (英语六级单词)
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