Here is one answer: I made a bad investment.

我做了一笔糟糕的投资。

Or that an unscrupulous or incompetent adviser might talk us into bad investments.

或者，一个不择手段或毫无能力的顾问忽悠我们做出错误投资的可能性。

Now use the verb " make" along with the noun phrase " a bad investment."

现在把动词“make”和名词短语“a bad investment”连用。

If not, he worries that " a lot of people will be hurt" by bad investments.

如果不这么做，他担心“很多人将会因为不良投资而受到伤害”。

However, he lost his wealth because of bad investments and failure to watch how the money was used.

然而，由于糟糕的投资和不清楚钱的去向，他失去了他的财富。

And so cash is almost always the worst investment.

因此，现金几乎总是最糟糕的投资。

The money was lost in a bad investment.

此前资金流失是因投资不善。

The Spice King refuses me because I'm a bad investment.

香料巨子拒绝我 因为我不值得他投资。

KESTENBAUM: And you could say, well, I just won't pick a bad investment fund.

KESTENBAUM：你可以说， 好吧，我只是不会选择一个糟糕的投资基金。

" As it is, " -now-" I've lost a lot of money." It was a bad investment.

“事实上，”——现在——“我损失了很多钱。”这是一项糟糕的投资。

And, at the same time, government programs labelled neighborhoods of color bad investments and often refused to insure mortgages in those areas.

而同时，政府计划把有色人种社区标记为劣等投资，拒绝为那些地区提供抵押贷款投保。

Over the previous three years, many Americans had withdrawn their savings out of fear the bank would lose their money in bad investments.

在过去的三年里，许多美国人因为担心银行会因不良投资而损失他们的钱而提取了他们的存款。

Many financial advisers put their clients’ interest first – but some financial advisers get backdoor payments and hidden fees in exchange for steering people into bad investments.

尽管大多数理财规划师将客户的利益放在首位，但依然有部分咨询人员利用后门和漏洞收钱，让客户的投资受损。

It's the idea that you commit to a sunk cost because you don't want to admit that you made a bad investment — either to others or to yourself.

这是因为你不想承认自己做了一笔不好的投资，不管是对别人还是对自己投资，所以你就坚持沉没成本的观点。

They're bad investments because they'll decay over time: the glass will crack, the water will leak out, and we'll look back and realize that we've spent our time poorly.

它们是糟糕的投资，因为它们会随着时间的推移而破裂：玻璃会裂开，水会漏出来，当我们回首往昔时，就会意识到我们已经挥霍完了我们的时间。

They’re bad investments because they’ll decay over time: the glass will crack, the water will leak out, and we’ll look back and realize that we’ve spent our time poorly.

它们是糟糕的投资， 因为它们会随着时间的流逝而腐烂：玻璃会破裂，水会漏出，我们回过头来看会发现我们的时间很糟糕。

A combination of bad investment years (such as 2001 or 2008), falling discount rates, ageing populations and the political infeasibility of asking employees to contribute more has pushed a lot of DB schemes into the red in recent years.

糟糕的投资年份（例如 2001 年或 2008 年）、贴现率下降、人口老龄化以及要求员工增加贡献的政治不可行性等因素的结合，导致近年来许多 DB 计划出现亏损。