And so...what you're noticing is a fair mount of mergers and acquisitions, meaning less efficeint businesses are collapsing into biger businesses.

所以你会看到,企业间大量的,兼并，这意味着,工作效率低下的企业,会垮台，被更大的企业吞并。

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Peter the Great expands territory beyond the Euro mountains along the Caspian Sea at the expense of the Turks.

彼得大帝越过欧洲山脉,沿着里海扩张,吞并着土耳其的土地

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So NewsCorp, whose price doubled when The Wall Street Journal's fell in half, eats up and The Wall Street Journal is gobbled up by the bigger company.

当新闻集团的股价翻倍时,《华尔街日报》的股价却减半,因而《华尔街日报》被报业大鳄吞并

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They were the same people who were always trying to annex Cuba; about four times over they tried to annex Cuba, and it's still a bit of mystery how it never happened.

他们与妄图吞并古巴的是同一伙人,他们曾四次试图吞并古巴,这个阴谋最终因何没有得逞倒是个谜

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The Newscorp's rising stock price was a sign that Rupert Murdoch had some idea how to make money and The Wall Street Journal was not doing as well, so it got gobbled up.

新闻集团,全球最大的媒体集团之一默多克家族控制其30%的股份,是鲁珀特·默多克有能力赚钱的标志,而《华尔街日报》做得不好,所以它被吞并了

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