Today, American taxpayers are bailing out GM and Chrysler, foreign competitors make most of the world's best cars, and the Big Three account for less than half the cars sold in the United States.
如今,美国纳税人正在救助通用汽车和克莱斯勒,外国竞争对手制造着世界上最好的汽车,而这“三巨头”在美国的汽车销量还不到一半。
And without big technological advances, Norway will be even more reliant on foreign offsets to fulfil its goal of carbon neutrality.
而且如果得不到科技的大进步,挪威要想达到碳中和的目标,就将更加依赖国外的排放量的抵销。
Big multinationals that do business in the country such as GM, GE and Ford will be better positioned to absorb the new tax than smaller foreign entrepreneurs, experts have said.
专家表示,相比规模较小的外国企业,在华开展业务的大型跨国公司,比如通用汽车、通用电气和福特,能够更好地应对新社保。
The banking system looks big on paper but it is swollen by foreign banks with offices in Dublin and loans abroad.
银行系统账面上看上去很大,那是因为许多外国银行在都伯林设有分行,进行对外借贷。
Just as in India, which saw a similar opening at the same time, companies have improved productivity as a result of foreign competition, and some big firms have expanded successfully abroad.
正如同一时期采取类似开放政策的印度,公司企业因外国竞争而改进生产力,而一些大型企业已在国外成功扩展。
That has on occasion curbed its appetite for transactions involving big inflows of foreign capital and delayed approvals.
有时候,这抑制了该机构对涉及大笔外国资本流入的交易的兴趣,并且拖延了审批进度。
Then, as health minister he took on two big foreign drugmakers, threatening to break the patents on their HIV drugs and getting them to cut their prices.
后来在卫生部长任内,他杠上了两大外国药厂,威胁要取消他们HIV药物的专利权,迫使他们降低价格。
Its car industry is globally important, along with its aerospace and pharmaceuticals giants, but its big car firms are all in foreign hands.
它的汽车工业如同其航天工业、制药工业一样,在世界上占很有影响,但是它的大型汽车公司都被外资控股。
But many industry experts say the big foreign makers are established enough to take control of the industry and its vast supplier network more quickly than is widely understood.
而许多业内人士认为,大型的外国汽车制造商已足以控制汽车业,他们建立了庞大的供应商网络,其速度之快,超出人们的一般认识。
Foreign institutions, which used to account for about 40% of company lending, have mostly gone home; domestic players have merged; and the market is dominated by four big Banks.
国外的金融机构过去通常在贷款数目上占40%的比例,但是现在大多已经撤回了资金;国内的机构已都合并;市场也被四大银行所支配着。
Big films such as "2012" and "Angels and Demons" have earned roughly twice as much in foreign cinemas as in American ones.
大制作电影诸如“2012”和“天使与魔鬼”在海外获利大体上是美国本土的两倍。
Yandex , described as “Russia’s Google”, made its stockmarket debut on NASDAQ, the latest in a string of big initial public offerings in America by domestic and foreign internet companies.
被称为是“俄罗斯的谷歌”的Yandex首次进入纳斯达克股票交易所,这是一系列国内和国外互联网公司在美国IPO(首次公开募股)中最近的一次。
“The foreign and, especially, the Latin American buyer has been a big factor in the remarkable turnaround in sales velocity,” says Jubeen Vaghefi of Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL), a property consultancy.
房地产咨询企业仲量联行(JLL)的朱宾•瓦格飞(Jubeen Vaghefi)指出:“在销售速度的显著回升中,外国特别是拉美买家是一个重要因素。”
Mr Wainaina lamely treats foreign correspondents in Africa as drones in search of the “most heart-wrenching and Genociding Pulitzerest, most black big-eyed Oxfam child starvingest”.
瓦奈纳先生老掉牙地把来非的外国记者描述成这样一群人,“仅仅只是挖掘最打动人心、最惨绝人寰,具有普利策奖价值的新闻;寻找最需要乐施会援助的黑小孩,只想找眼神最空洞,形容最枯槁的 ”。
These house some of the big investment banks, usually foreign-owned, which trade shares, bonds, currencies and derivatives on a scale that would have made an old-school City gent choke on his lunch.
这些建筑中有些是大的投行,通常是外资所有,他们交易股票、债券、货币和金融衍生物,而规模之大,能让一个传统都市绅士被他的午餐噎住。
It will be a really big challenge for me, as I have to work and live in a foreign country for nearly two months.
这对我而言真是一次巨大的挑战,因为在近两个月的时间里,我必须要在异国工作、生活。
Many of the big cross-border takeovers of the past seven years, by Indian firms abroad and foreign firms into the subcontinent, are not the triumphs their promoters and excited supporters claim.
过去七年当中,大多数由印度企业走向海外或者外企进入这个次大陆的跨国并购是并不如他们的促进者和兴奋的支持者所宣称的那样成功的。
However, many big companies that compose the Dow and Standard &Poor's 500 indexes rely heavily on business overseas, so they could be helped by expectations for foreign expansion.
然而,道琼斯指数和标准普尔500指数中的许多大公司主要依赖海外业务,所以能够受益于海外业务扩展的期望。
GM had long been big in Latin America, but in China and Russia it was reaping the rewards from being among the first foreign firms to set up factories.
通用在拉丁美洲长期以来独大,而在中国和俄罗斯它则作为第一批建厂的企业享受着收获的喜悦。
But all of the big Banks in the foreign-exchange market, they say, were called and urged to curb their dollar purchases.
但是他们说外汇市场的所有大型银行都被号召或被强烈要求停止购买美元。
Most poor states still rely on commodities for big shares of their foreign exchange and tax revenues.
见表一许多贫困国家的外汇收入和税收,很大额度上还在依靠着这些商品来维系。
The export of tea, coffee and flowers, big foreign-currency earners, has slowed drastically.
茶叶、咖啡和鲜花出口,这些都是出口创汇的大户,现在急剧缩减。
Some big Indian firms are moving into the business, but what is needed is to lift the remaining restrictions on foreign ownership and let in international experts such as Walmart, Tesco and Carrefour.
许多印度大公司意图涉足这个行业,但当务之急应是取消对外国企业尚存的限制,让沃尔玛、特易购和家乐福之类的国际零售专家进入这个行业。
If the deficit remains so big, America's foreign debt burden and hence its debt-service payments will increase sharply.
如果赤字保持这一高额,美国的外债及由此引发的债务偿还负担将会急剧加重。
One big concern today is that the majority of the foreign money flooding into India is going into the stock market, rather than into new projects and start-up companies.
如今最令人担心的是流入印度的国外资本绝大部分进入了股市,而不是新的项目和新成立的公司。
One big concern today is that the majority of the foreign money flooding into India is going into the stock market, rather than into new projects and start-up companies.
如今最令人担心的是流入印度的国外资本绝大部分进入了股市,而不是新的项目和新成立的公司。
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