On the following pages, therefore, we will present some balance sheet and earnings figures from our four major categories of businesses along with commentary about each. We particularly want you to understand the limited circumstances under which we will use debt, since typically we shun it. We will not, however, inundate you with data that has no real value in calculating Berkshire’s intrinsic value. Doing so would likely obfuscate the most important facts. One warning: When analyzing Berkshire, be sure to remember that the company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph. Those who focused in the past on only the snapshot of the day sometimes reached erroneous conclusions.
因此，在接下来的篇幅，我们将按旗下四大事业分别列示资产负债表与收益数字并加以说明，特别要告诉大家的是，只有在罕见的情况下，我们才会举债经营，基本上我们一向对负债采取回避的态度，同时我们也不会塞给各位一些对于衡量伯克希尔内在价值毫无意义的信息，因为那样做只会模糊了真正的焦点，另外要提醒大家，在分析伯克希尔时，记得把它当作是一部正在上演的影片，而不是一张静止的照片，否则仅靠单一片段的信息有时很可能会得到错误的结论。