His huge enterprise had always remained essentially a copartnership, and he had frequently expressed his abhorrence of trusts.

他的庞大企业本质是合伙制， 他经常表达对拉斯的厌恶。

In this period before the Civil War comparatively small single owners, or frequently copartnerships, controlled practically every industrial field.

之前的这时期， 相对较小的单所有者或经常是合伙企业几乎控制了每个工业领域。