By bowing to the merger bid, the business tycoon ceded control of his company to his former rival.

这位商界大亨向并购案低头，拱手让出公司的控制权给从前的对手。

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So in recent years, company execs have ceded the low-margin market for PC monitors, concentrating instead on high-end displays for cell phones, handheld computers, and digital cameras.

所以，近些年来，公司管理人员逐渐放弃了低盈利的个人电脑显示器市场，把精力集中于手机、手提电脑和数码摄像机等高端显示器。

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The sparsely populated island of Singapore was ceded to the British East India Company in 1819, and the city was founded the same year by Sir Thomas Raffles.

人口稀疏的新加坡岛于1819年割让给英国东印度公司，新加坡城在同一年由托马斯·拉弗尔斯爵士建立。

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Under terms of the Employee Stock Option Plan completed in April, which ceded 25.4% of the company to the pilots, the pilots can't sell shares until they quit.

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