It is the quiet predator that grows by buying all or parts of those firms that are stupid enough, or too clever-by-half enough, to fail.
这是一个沉默的猎食者，通过收购一些公司部分或全部的愚蠢业务，或收购哪些因聪明过头而倒下的公司来成长。
The London agents Stirling Ackroyd recently identified enough sites for half a million houses in the London area alone, with no intrusion on green belt.
最近，伦敦房地产中介公司 StirlingAckroyd 发现，仅在伦敦地区就有足够的场地供50万套房屋使用，而且不会对绿化带造成干扰。
This year city services will separate for recycling enough refuse to reduce the number of truckloads of refuse to be incinerated to half of last year's number.
今年，城市服务部门将对垃圾进行分类回收，从而将垃圾焚烧的卡车数量减少到去年的一半。
Having been cautioned, the defender should have been professional enough not to tug at the same opponent's jersey after half an hour.
在被警告后，这名后卫应该足够专业，不再在半个小时后去扯同一名对手的球衣。
In the 1990s enough electricity to meet about half the needs of San Francisco was being generated there.
在20世纪90年代，那里产出的电能大约能满足旧金山一半的用电需求。
They believe that half an hour is enough to stop young and healthy people from feeling tired.
他们认为半小时的睡眠足以让年轻人和健康的人不再感到疲劳。
We would all eat until we were full enough, but there were always about half of the potatoes leftover.
我们会一直吃到吃饱为止，但土豆总是剩下一半左右。
Sure enough, these amphibious species show up on the triangular graph approximately half way between the "wet cluster" of sea turtles and the "dry cluster" of land tortoises.
可以肯定的是，这些水陆两栖物种的数据出现在接近三角坐标中间的位置，位于水栖海龟和陆栖乌龟的坐标点之间。
Half of them say they have enough money for food and clothes but struggle to buy durable goods.
他们中半数人说有足够的钱购买食品和衣服，而在买耐用商品时就显得拮据了。
Half of US mothers are not getting enough sleep and they believe getting more rest would make them better parents, according to a US study.
美国一项调查表明，美国有一半的妈妈睡眠不足，这些妈妈认为，如果她们睡眠充足，能做个更加称职的妈妈。
She says her sales have fallen by nearly half this year, in part because it has been hard to secure enough inventory.
她说，她的销售额在今年已经下降了将近一半，部分原因是不能保证足够库存的安全。
Some keep enough cash in the vaults to repay almost half their depositors on the spot.
部分银行在金库储备了足够多的现金，足以应付近一半储户的当场提现。
The NHS has enough of the antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza to treat half the UK population, according to the Department of Health.
据卫生部介绍，NHS储备了足够的预防病原体药物达菲，这可以治疗一半的英国人口。
Ruth reached into her pocket and realized that she didn’t bring enough money to pay her half of the restaurant bill.
鲁斯把手伸进口袋，发现她带的钱不够支付餐馆账单的一半。
Ruth reached into her pocket and realized that she didn't bring enough money to pay her half of the restaurant bill.
鲁斯把手伸进口袋，发现她带的钱不够支付餐馆账单的一半。
A woman of fame and influence, Kan had nevertheless been courteous enough to keep me waiting only half an hour to speak to her.
作为一个具有知名度和影响力的女人，羽西相当谦恭，只让我等了半小时就开始访谈。
A hard slog, but at least I now have enough cherries to last me about half the way.
这是一段艰苦的路程，不过我有很多草莓，够我吃半路的。
In the past, there was not enough water so they couldn't grow more than one and a half crops a year.
过去因为水不够用，他们一年种的作物超不过一季半。
The thread length depends on the size of the book, get enough to sew about half the book.
线的长度取决于书的大小，一次留足订半本书的线。
The Mini-Mill was just big enough for the job - half an inch less travel on the Y-axis would have made the job extremely difficult.
这台迷你机床的大小正好——要是在Y 方向上再少半寸，那这活可就难干了。
But of the 173 people who have been sick enough to be hospitalized, more than half are in the 5-to-24 age group.
但是住院的173名患者中超过一半处于5 ~24岁年龄阶段。
India's mobile subscribers totalled 563.73 million at the last count, enough to serve nearly half of the country's 1.2 billion population.
据最近一次的统计数据显示，印度手机用户数达到5.6373亿，占该国总人口（总人口12亿）数的近一半。
For example, the researchers last week said they had managed to gather enough energy from a TV station a half-kilometer away to power a small temperature sensor.
例如，研究人员上周说，他们已经设法从半公里远的一座电视发射台收集了足够了能量给一个小型温度传感器供电。
Indeed, it took tobacco critics half a century before the relevant committees in Congress had enough anti-tobacco members to pass legislation allowing the FDA to regulate tobacco as a drug.
实际上，烟草批评人士经过半个世纪的努力，才说服相关国会委员会，以立法形式允许美国食品和药品管理局将烟草列为药物。
They didn't have enough money to fill up the tank so they only got half a tank of gas.
他们没有足够的钱可装满油，所以他们只装了半个汽油箱的汽油。
While I am a slow technology adapter, I found that I could operate it well enough after a half-hour instruction.
尽管我是个对科技接受的比较慢的人，但我发现，在接受了半个小时的讲解后，我已经可以顺畅操作了。
All seven, Mr Spicer insists, will suffer the prescribed penalty: losing half their delegates at the convention, which is to be held, embarrassingly enough, in Florida.
斯派塞坚持认为该七州都会受到惩罚，在提名大会上损失半数代表，而这次大会正是在佛罗里达召开，极其尴尬。
Sure enough, half an hour later Bubba emerges with the Pope on the balcony.
果然，半个小时以后，布巴和教皇一齐出现在阳台上。
Of course, since the Titanic had enough lifeboats for only half its passengers, many people were never going to make it off the ship alive.
当然，因为泰坦尼克号上的救生筏只够一半人使用，所以很多人并没有成功逃生。
But after a while an hour and a half was not enough, and I began to think up excuses to miss dinner.
但过了一段时间，一个半小时还不够，我就为了错过饭时编造些借口。
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