The world is going through the biggest wave of mergers and acquisitions ever witnessed.

世界正在经历一场前所未有的巨大的并购浪潮。

Business partners. Mergers and acquisitions. I'm kidding. We're gay.

生意伙" 伴" 。做并购的。开。我们是同志。

D) The merger of publishers is a worrying trend.

D）出版商的合并是一个令人担忧的趋势。

A musical merger could create anew model, or a dozy mammoth.

唱片行业的并购案可能会催生一种新的商业模式，亦或者是一个行动迟缓的" 然大物" 。

For example, the merger is a no-brainer.

比如，合并是理所当然的。

The effect of mergers is to make things murkier.

企业合并的效果是让事情变得更加模糊。

T-Mobile CEO says the merger would create jobs and lower prices for consumers.

T-Mobile的首席执行官表示，合并将创造就业机会，并降低消费者的。

Other media companies considering mergers like Disney and 21st Century Fox are watching carefully.

考虑到迪士尼和21世纪福克斯等公司的并购，其他媒体公司也在密切关注。

As a result of the merger, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study was established.

合并之后，拉德克利夫高等研宄院成立了。

Just 4 months after approving the highly contentious merger of comcast with NBC Universal.

这是在争议颇多的康卡斯特和NBC环球公司合并之后4个月后宣布的。

The move has already drawn the eye of many groups opposed to the merger.

这一举动吸引了多方目光，有不少人反对。

In the U.S. mergers and acquisitions need to be approved by the government agencies.

在美国，并购需要得到政府机构的批准。

Others were forced into mergers, or needed to be bailed out by the government.

其他机构被迫合并，或者需要政府救助。

The merger was announced in November 2014 but opposed by some big oil companies.

两公司于2014年11月宣布合并，当时遭到一些大型石油公司的反对。

The reforms will probably have a bigger effect on hospital mergers.

改革可能对医院合并产生更大的影响。

It is the third big merger in the payments industry this year.

这是今年支付行业的第三次大合并。

The gaming industry was already seeing plenty of merger activity.

游戏行业已经出现了大量的并购动作。

It would have been the biggest-ever tech merger.

这本可以成为有史以来最大的科技公司合并。

Naturally, nobody knows the real deal on this merger thing.

很自然的，没人知道这次的合并到底是怎么是回事。

What could be the source of a flash of light following a black hole merger?

黑洞碰撞合并后闪光可能的来源是什么?