现在，最后一丝希望寄托在英国和美国同时进行的一项实验结果上，那就是为北美航空公司(NAA)设计的P - 51战斗机装上劳斯莱斯公司设计的“灰背隼”引擎。
The only glimmer of hope was the outcome of experiments being made in England and the US to mate the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine to the airframe of the North American Aviation (NAA) P-51.
劳斯莱斯的举动也提醒了其他企业，贮存的现金并不一定要花在英国。
Rolls-Royce’s move is also a reminder that the cash hoarded need not be spent in Britain.
过去几十年里，劳斯莱斯从一个亏本的英国企业转变成世界上第二大的大型喷气发动机制造商。
Over the past couple of decades or so Rolls-Royce has transformed itself from a lossmaking British firm into the world's second-biggest maker of large jet engines.
令人关心的一个明显问题是，英国其他全球性企业将效仿劳斯莱斯，把多数贮蓄金花在国外市场，导致本土消费寥寥无几。
An obvious concern is that Britain's other global firms will, like Rolls-Royce, spend much of their savings abroad, leaving little to spend at home.
工程公司劳斯莱斯，制药巨头gsk和芯片制造商arm公司向世界证明了英国公司能够在高技术，高附加值行业获得成功。
As companies like Rolls-Royce, an engineering firm, GSK, a drugs giant, and ARM, a chipmaker, demonstrate, British companies can prosper in high-skill, high-value industries.
加上买一部分德国的制造企业，劳斯莱斯也许能把些许德国的经济奇迹带回英国。
By buying a bit of Germany's manufacturing, Rolls-Royce might bring some of that country's economic miracle back home.
高级实习制或许看起来是一个不错的选择，但是更多的人倾向于为宝贵的英国宇航系统公司或者去劳斯莱斯的而非牛津剑桥。
Serious apprenticeships may look like a good alternative, but more people apply for precious BAE or Rolls-Royce places than for Oxbridge.
当英国汽车厂商满足于为国内市场生产质量平平的汽车时，劳斯莱斯成功地从一个英国公司转型为全球化的公司。
Whereas British car firms once contented themselves with making shoddy cars for the domestic market, Rolls-Royce has transformed itself from a British firm into a global one.
英国的航空工业有几个知名的的制造商：劳斯莱斯制造引擎，BAE系统公司制造战斗机，阿古斯特韦斯特兰公司生产直升机。
Britain's aerospace industry has a few obvious champions: Rolls-Royce makes engines, BAESystems makes fighter jets and AgustaWestland turns out helicopters.
英国航空航天系统（BAE System）与劳斯莱斯公司、QinetiQ公司和GE航空集团联合研发了塔拉尼斯。据称，塔拉尼斯的建造过程历时3年半，耗费超过100万小时人工。
Taranis took three and a half years to build, including more than a million man-hours, according to BAE Systems, which built the plane along with Rolls Royce, QinetiQ, and GE Aviation.
英国航空航天系统（BAE System）与劳斯莱斯公司、QinetiQ公司和GE航空集团联合研发了塔拉尼斯。据称，塔拉尼斯的建造过程历时3年半，耗费超过100万小时人工。
Taranis took three and a half years to build, including more than a million man-hours, according to BAE Systems, which built the plane along with Rolls Royce, QinetiQ, and GE Aviation.
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