He was a scientist, inventor, and founder of the Bell Telephone Company.

他是一名科学家、发明家以及贝尔电话公司创始人。

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1：In the old days the bell Telephone Company became the biggest in the world by buying up a lot of local phone companies, lock, stock and barrel and merging them into one giant corporation.

他说：Bell电话公司当初收购了许多地方电话公司，把这些小公司统统合并成一家庞大的企业，Bell公司这才跃居世界首位。 Bell公司一古脑儿地网罗了那些小公司，以成为规模巨大的企业，所以这里的 lock, stock and barrel 显然解释“统统地、一古脑儿地。”

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Almost 60 years ago, the Bell Telephone Company launched a program to address rising concerns about the education of its managers.

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But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.

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