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

意伙" 伴" 。做并购的。开玩笑啦。我们是同志。

Next year, after a series of mergers is completed, just four railroads will control well over 90 percent of all the freight moved by major rail carriers.

到明年，系列兼并活动完成之后，四家铁路公司将控制 90％以上的铁路运输业务。

Major business mergers need U.S. government approval to go through, though.

不过，主要的商业合并需要美国政府的批准才能通过。

For example, the merger is a no-brainer.

比如，合并是理所当然的。

The constrained operations means pending investigations in securities violations have ground to a halt, and there is no one reviewing applications for company stock offerings to raise cash or consider merger and acquisition filings.

业务受限制意味着对违反证券规定的调查也已经停滞，意味着没了人审核企业为了募集现金，并购或收购发行股票的申请。

The Italian American company Fiat Chrysler and the French PSA group that owns Peugeot and Citroen have confirmed a merger that would create the world's 4th largest carmaker.

意大利美国合资公司菲亚特克莱斯勒和坐拥标致和雪铁龙的法国PSA集团已经确认合并，此举将创造世界第四大汽车制造商。

Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could re-create the same threats to competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the U.S. , when the Standard Oil Trust was broken up.

但是很难想像当今的几个石油公司的合并是否会重新造成约 100 年前美国标准石油公司对竞争造成的同样的威胁，那时由于人们对该公司的这种担心而导致了它最终的解散。

But consumer advocacy groups like the Coalition to Protect Patient Choice say these mergers haven't gone well in the past and that patients wind up paying more money and having less choice when it comes to medications.

但是像“患者权益联盟”样的消费者权利织称这样的并购在以前并没有很成功，病人将会因为药品选择减少，而花更多的钱。

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。

The merger will make the consulate subordinate to the US ambassador to Israel David Freeman, considered a supporter of the Israeli settlement program in the West Bank.

此次合并将会让总领事馆从属于美国驻以色列大使大卫·弗里曼，他被认为是西岸以色列定居点计划的支持者。

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

世界正在经历场前所未有的巨大的并购浪潮。

News of the merger cut across all the departments: Everyone, even those people in separate departments who maybe didn't usually get along, felt worried about the merger.

所有人，甚至那些不同部门之间不常见面打交道的人，都对合并感到担忧。

America's freight-rail regulator must first give a green light to the merger.

美国的货运铁路监管机构必须先给这次收购“开个绿灯”。

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。

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

改革可能对医院合并产更大的影响。

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。

Such a merger would control roughly 40% of flights based in the U.S.

这样的合并将控制美国境内约40%的航班。

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?