Meanwhile, multinational companies have gone on an international acquisition binge.

与此同时，跨国公司掀起国际收购狂。

I was chief executive of a meat trading firm called FMC Harris, which was subject to a hostile take-over.

我曾是一家名为FMC哈里斯的肉类贸易公司首席执行官，这家公司遭到恶意收购。

Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5bn, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp messaging service, which doesn't have any physical product at all.

亚马逊公司刚刚宣布以135亿美元收购了档杂货连锁店 “全食超市”，而就在两年前，脸书以更的价格收购了 WhatsApp 信息服务，该服务没有任何实体产品。

A federal judge in America found that the Federal Trade Commission had failed to show how Microsoft's proposed takeover of Activision Blizzard, an online-games developer, would hurt competition and denied the regulator's request for an injunction to block the deal.

美国一名联邦法官裁决，联邦贸易委员会未能证明微软收购在线游戏开发商动视暴雪的议将如何损害竞争，并驳回了这个监管机构阻止该交易的禁令请求。

As Google grew, it expanded beyond search, with big acquisitions like YouTube, Android and Waze.

随着谷歌的成长，它通过收购 YouTube、安卓和 Waze 等大型网站超越了搜索业务。

18. M: We don't have the resources to stop those people from buying us out unless a miracle happens. This may be the end of us.

问题18. M: 我们没有资源阻止那些人收购我们，除非奇迹发生。这可能是我们的末日了。

So eventually Google bought it, of course.

所以谷歌最后收购了 Metaweb。

Last year, Major League Baseball bought Rawlings, the company that makes the baseballs.

去年，美职棒收购了制造棒球的罗林斯公司。

The acquisition will give Apple access to the smaller companies engineers.

此次收购让苹果能够接触到较小公司的工程师。

CGI Merchant Group is likely to acquire the property for $375 million.

CGI商业团可能会以3.75亿美元收购这处资产。

The British Airports Authority, recently bought by a Spanish company, says the root cause of the problem is not the ownership structure but a lack of runway and terminal capacity, which it is addressing through a program of heavy investment.

最近被一家西班牙公司收购的英国机场管理局，表示问题的根源不在于产权结构而在于跑道和航空站容客量不足，而他们正在投巨资解决这一问题。

In the 1980s House of Fraser was the subject of a histrionic row between a British tycoon, Tiny Rowland, who coveted the company, and an Egyptian investor, Mohamed Al Fayed, who bought it.

在上世纪八十年代，弗雷泽百货 (House of Fraser) 曾是两大商业巨亨的争夺对象，英国巨头蒂尼·罗兰德已对这家公司垂涎已久，最终埃及投资商默罕默德·法耶德成功收购。

The French PSA group which manufactures Peugeot Citroen cars says it's considering taking over Opel, the European business at the U.S. car giant General Motors.

生产标致雪铁龙汽车的法国PSA团表示他们正在考虑收购德国欧宝公司，美国通用汽车的子公司。

America's new plan to buy up toxic assets will not work unless banks mark assets to levels which buyers find attractive.

只有在银行将资产定价在足够吸引买家的水平上，美国收购不良资产的新计划才会有效。

CVS's purchase of Aetna is not a done deal.

CVS的收购还没有完成。

Amazon bought Whole Foods back in 2017 for close to $14 billion.

亚马逊在2017年以接近140亿美元的价格收购了全食超市。

He bought a company during what was known as the " quiet period" .

他在所谓的" 平静期" 收购了一家公司。

You're head of acquisitions at APMG, correct?

你是APMG收购部的主管，对吧？

It was eventually taken over by a company who owned a number of amusement parks, but when we get there I think you'll see that they've managed to retain the original atmosphere of the castle.

它最终是由一个公司收购了，这个公司拥有很多娱乐公园，但是当我们到达的时候，我觉得大家会发现他们非常努力地保持城堡原有的氛围。

That's why it bought WarnerMedia three years ago for $85 billion.

所以它三年前斥资850亿美元收购华纳媒体。