This week, the Blackstone Group bid $36 billion, including debt, for Equity Office Properties Trust, America's biggest owner of office buildings.

本周，黑石集团（Blackstone Group）出价360亿美元，收购美国最大的写字楼业主，办公物业投资信托公司（Equity Office Properties Trust），这其中包括对方的债务。

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In the period between when he was the sole owner, and when I joined, he had done a couple of different financings with different people, 50% and had diluted his equity ownership to 50%.

在他作为唯一拥有人和我加入公司之间，的这段时间，他也向其他人,筹措了了一些资金，他的股票减持到了。

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Owner's equity means the economic benefits enjoyed by the owner from the assets of the enterprise, and its amount shall be the remaining amount of assets after deducting liabilities.

所有者权益，是指所有者在企业资产中享有的经济利益，其金额为资产减去负债后的余额。

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If a debt is paid down from income, the equity of the owner increases, while the debt owed to the lender declines.

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They have legal characteristics of debt, but if things go bad you're generally the first creditor to take on the rights of an equity owner.

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