wp-includes/meta.php error

My installation stops with the error msg:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/highspee/public_html/wp-includes/meta.php on line 61

and here’s what that line says

if ( ! $meta_id = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( “SELECT $id_column FROM $table WHERE meta_key = %s AND $column = %d”, $meta_key, $object_id ) ) )
return add_metadata($meta_type, $object_id, $meta_key, $meta_value);

How to fix, please?