If Terra Firma can't manage to muster empathy from a mostly working-class jury, he is unlikely to get it from hard-nosed investors.

如果泰丰资本不能设法唤起陪审团(大部分是劳工阶层)的同情，那么它更不可能从精明的投资者那里得到同情。

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DURING his testimony in a New York court on October 19th, Guy Hands, the boss of Terra Firma, a European private-equity firm, compared suing Citigroup to “putting a stick into a dragon”.

一家欧洲私募公司Terra Firma的老板盖汉斯先生十月19日在纽约法庭上作证时曾把状告花旗集团的一桩案子比作“太岁头上动土。”

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If Terra Firma does not invest more equity in EMI, it will have to frantically look for a buyer, or hand it over to Citigroup, which financed the deal.

如果Terra Firma私募公司不能给百代唱片注入更多的资金的话，那么它将被迫寻找新的买家，或者把它移交给曾经为此桩交易做贷款人的花旗。

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The delicate flower, which, appropriately, can be found in a rainbow of colors, was named after her since every time she set foot on terra firma, a field of them would instantly spring up.

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Terra Firma, a British outfit, has struggled to keep control of one of its main portfolio companies, EMI, a record label, which it bought in a highly leveraged deal in 2007.

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