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1. Did you hear Dave the accountant got fired for stealing from the company?
2. Yeah, he’d been cooking the books for years.
3. The chief executive of that bank got sent to jail for cooking the books.
4. Well I think he deserves it. Fraud is a serious crime.
5. If you ‘cook the books’, you change the numbers in a company’s financial records so you can take some of the money for yourself illegally.
译文：
1. 你听到会计师戴夫因为从公司偷钱被解雇了吗？
2. 是的，他私自窜改财务报表好多年了。
3. 那家银行的首席执行官因为造假账被关进了监狱。
4. 嗯，我想是他该得的，[财务]造假是一种严重的犯罪。
5. 如果你’cook the books’，就是说你窜改公司的财务报表以非法挪用公款为己有。
cook the books = 伪造或窜改财务报表，造假账
口语练习：
A manager in Bank of China was sent to jail for cooking the books.
Anyone who dares to cook the books should face the consequence of serious legal punishment.
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