该报告给人一种巴菲特被索科尔欺骗的印象。
The report paints a picture of Buffett as having been duped by Sokol.
在会议后不久，索科尔第一次购买了路博润的股票。
Shortly after that meeting, Sokol made his first buys of Lubrizol shares.
尽管如此，商业道德顾问大概不会推荐人们复制索科尔的行为。
Still, an adviser on business ethics probably wouldn't recommend copying Mr Sokol.
索科尔和中美公司的其他管理者被证明是谈判高手。
Mr. Sokol and the other MidAmerican managers proved to be tough bargainers. Mr.
索科尔在与巴菲特和亚伯商谈之后决定收购该公司。
Sokol, after discussing the deal with Messrs. Buffett and Abel, decided to make an offer.
他让秘书拿着一张纸条进入会议室，纸条上只写着：大卫•索科尔。
He told the secretary to go into the room with a piece of paper containing two words: David Sokol.
索科尔开始引起关注并在深夜接到电话警告他停止调查。
Sokol began to raise concerns and received late-night phone calls warning him to stop.
在他们首次谈及这家公司时，索科尔已告知其持有路博润公司的股票。
Mr Sokol had mentioned that he owned Lubrizol shares when they first discussed the company.
我发现索科尔是一位非常出色的管理人士，在打造企业方面卓有成效。
I found Sokol to be a brilliant executive, a company builder who gets results.
在巴菲特宣布消息的时候，他说他相信索科尔未曾做过任何不合法的事。
When Buffett made that announcement, he said he believed Sokol had not done anything unlawful.
在此类问题得到回答前，我们不知道索科尔是否真的参与了什么非法活动。
Until we know the answers to these types of questions, we won't know whether Sokol engaged in any kind of illegal activity.
已经有人开始怀疑，索科尔可能将无力达成巴菲特能做成的交易。
Already, doubters have emerged who believe Mr. Sokol won't be able to pull off the deals Mr. Buffett has.
虽然李并未像索科尔那样戏剧性地离开，但是，他也从来没有真正为伯克希尔工作过。
Li didn't leave the running as dramatically as Sokol, but instead, he never started working at Berkshire.
美国国会反扩散委员会的亨利·索科尔斯基说，仍然不清楚所签署的协议中是否有此规定。
Yet it's unclear whether the signed deal stipulates this, says Henry Sokolski, who serves on the US Congress's anti-proliferation commission.
伯恩斯说：“在那次会面中，索科尔收到了路博润可能有兴趣被收购的积极反馈？
Says Berns: "Did Sokol receive positive feedback in the meeting that Lubrizol might be interested in being acquired?"
索科尔告诉巴菲特，他根本没有幻想能够成为巴菲特的继承人，提出辞职的原因与那些交易完全无关。
Mr. Sokol told Mr. Buffett that he had not hoped to be Mr. Buffett's successor, and was resigning for reasons unrelated to those trades.
今年一月索科尔推荐巴菲特购买一家化学品公司路博润(Lubrizol)公司的股票。
In January he had recommended that Mr Buffett buy Lubrizol, a chemicals firm.
该报告给人一种巴菲特被索科尔欺骗的印象。但是，一位股东说它也有刻意为巴菲特的错误推脱的印象。
The report paints a picture of Buffett as having been duped by Sokol. However, one shareholder said it was also crafted to exonerate Buffett from wrongdoing.
我们离有一位新首席执行官已经不远了。你认为我们怎样才能保证不再出现索科尔这样的行为。
We are not far away from now to have a new CEO. How do you make sure that someone in line will not act like Sokol?
这样的成就绝难出自一位意志薄弱者，而索科尔——正如我所见，一个充满动力的高管——曾激怒了很多人。
You don't get those kinds of results by being a milquetoast, and Sokol — as driven an executive as I've met — rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.
巴菲特之前曾说过他不会对索科尔的行为进一步说话，但鉴于来自集团内部的极大压力，这一立场变得无法维持。
Buffett previously said he would have nothing further to say about Sokol's actions, a stance that became untenable over time given the intense pressure on the conglomerate.
在巴菲特宣布消息的时候，他说他相信索科尔未曾做过任何不合法的事。但星期三的声明看起来已经不是那么回事了。
When Buffett made that announcement, he said he believed Sokol had not done anything unlawful. The statement Wednesday seemed to suggest otherwise.
伯克希尔公司董事会称，他们还在考虑对索科尔采取法律行动，除其他事项之外，要求归还在此事件上获得的所有收益。
The Berkshire board said it was still considering legal action against Sokol to, among other things, recover any trading profits he made.
圣彼得堡国家大学的李尔尼德·索科尔夫教授说，阿波菲斯99942更有可能在撞上地球之前就已经被击碎。
Professor Leonid Sokolov of St. Petersburg State University remarked that 99942 Apophis would most likely disintegrate before hitting Earth.
伯克希尔·哈撒韦公司(Berkshire Hathaway)的经理大卫·索科尔突然宣布辞职，让许多人颇感意外。
A SURPRISE RESIGNATION at Berkshire Hathaway as manager David Sokol leaves the company.
无论这是否构成内部交易，这都是一个令人震惊的道德疏失，存在明显的利益冲突，而且违背了索科尔对雇主保持忠诚的职责。
Whether or not this constitutes insider trading, it is a shocking ethical lapse, a blatant conflict of interest and a breach of Mr. Sokol's duty of loyalty to his employer.
索科尔曾经供职于伯克希尔公司员工，很认真的研究了此处交易，或者是当成他的对伯克希尔的收购的一次模糊概念？
Had Sokol already engaged Berkshire's staff to seriously look at the deal, or was a Berkshire acquisition just a vague notion of his?
报告中还披露，索科尔并没有把自己视为巴菲特未来的继承人；或者至少在违规交易事件曝光之后，他是这么想的。
The report also reveals that Sokol didn't view himself as a potential successor to Buffett – or at least, didn't after the trading transgressions came to light.
巴菲特指出，在首次谈论收购路博润公司时，索科尔就承认他拥有该公司股票，没有证据显示索科尔在谈论后有继续买卖行为。
Mr Buffett says Mr Sokol had mentioned that he owned Lubrizol shares when they first discussed the company. No evidence has emerged that he continued to buy or sell after then.
巴菲特指出，在首次谈论收购路博润公司时，索科尔就承认他拥有该公司股票，没有证据显示索科尔在谈论后有继续买卖行为。
Mr Buffett says Mr Sokol had mentioned that he owned Lubrizol shares when they first discussed the company. No evidence has emerged that he continued to buy or sell after then.
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