German and French firms have snapped up British water and electricity companies, and London's airports belong to a Spanish construction company.

德国和法国公司抢购了英国水利和电力公司，一家西班牙建筑公司得到了伦敦机场。

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Now the French are shaking in their shoes over a bid by Sacyr Vallehermoso, a Spanish construction company, for the historic Eiffage construction group, which built the Eiffel Tower.

而现在，法国也对Sacyr Vallehermoso(西班牙一家建筑公司)要收购曾经修建艾菲尔铁塔，具有历史性意义的Eiffage组织感到焦急不安。

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Growth wobbled in the second quarter of this year for various reasons (a spike in French imports and a drop in German construction, for example).

由于各种原因，经济增长率在今年的第二个季度有所波动(例如，法国进口的受挫和德国建筑业的下滑)。

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"A lot of French construction companies got very rich out of building the Wall, " said Jerome Prieur, author of a 2010 book, Le Mur Atlantique.

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Dubai-based construction firm Arabtec announced on Tuesday that it had won the 2.4 billion dirham construction contract for the Middle East outpost of the famous French museum and will begin construction immediately.

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From these plans, as well as extensive inventories of construction materials carefully preserved by the French court to reflect the magnificence of the finished palace, Zega and Dams were able to trace the peculiar rise of Versailles.

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