Mm, the American industrial icon that makes Jets turbines another expensive bits of machinery struck a deal on Wednesday to split off about $34 billion of airplane leases, merging them with islands, air cut and taking shares in the new company in return.

毫米，美國工業圖標，使噴氣式渦輪機另一個昂貴的機械位，週三達成協議，拆分約340億美元的飛機租賃，將其與島嶼合併，空氣切割，並採取新公司的股份作為回報。

If it all goes through, GE will get about $30 billion of cash it can use to pay down its debts of around $100 billion.

如果一切順利，GE將獲得約300億美元的現金，可以用來償還約1000億美元的債務。

Now this is all part of a long running saga of GE trying to slim down decades after its huge and basically disastrous foray into financial services.

現在，這一切都是通用電氣長期以來試圖瘦身的傳奇故事的一部分，在其進入金融服務領域的巨大和基本災難性的幾十年後。

Larry Culp, who is the chief executive, took over in 2018, and he's been selling bits and pieces like GE's Bio Pharma business shares it holds in oil services company Baker Hughes.

拉里-庫爾普（Larry Culp）是首席執行官，他在2018年接任，他一直在出售零碎的東西，比如GE的生物製藥業務股份，它在石油服務公司貝克休斯（Baker Hughes）持有的股份。

And even getting rid of GS Lightbulb business, which was once its most famous product, did shareholders thank him for Wednesday's deal.

甚至擺脫了曾經最著名的產品GS燈泡業務，週三的交易中，股東們是否感謝他。

No, they did not.

不，他們沒有。

The shares fell that day, and they fell the next day to one reason is undoubtedly the G E is effectively selling those aircraft leases on the cheap it's going to take a $3 billion loss as a result.

當天股價就跌了，第二天就跌了，一個原因是毫無疑問，G E實際上是在廉價出售這些飛機租賃合同，它要是以損失30億美元。

Another is that GE specializes in these kind of long, protracted goodbyes.

另一個是，GE專門做這種漫長的、曠日持久的告別。

It's still going to hold on to almost half of the airline leasing company, which it says is worth about $6 billion and can sell over time.

它仍將持有這家航空租賃公司近一半的股份，它說這家公司的價值約為60億美元，可以隨著時間的推移而出售。

But it took three years just to sell those light bulbs after the company first said it was going to do so in 2017.

但該公司在2017年首次表示要賣掉這些燈泡後，光是賣掉這些燈泡就花了三年時間。

Now Cult has a really good reason to keep forging ahead.

現在Cult有了一個很好的理由繼續前進。

His bonus package could make him about $230 million richer if he can get the share price up to around $17 and keep it there.

如果他的獎金方案能讓股價漲到17美元左右，並保持在這個價位上，就能讓他發財約2.3億美元。

That's about a third higher than where the shares are as I speak these words.

這比我說這些話時的股價高出三分之一。

So shareholders are frustrated at GE.

所以股東們對通用電氣很失望。

Slow progress.

進展緩慢。

At least they're not the only ones.

至少他們不是唯一的人。