Hotel costs gobbled up most of their holiday budget.

住宿旅馆的费用耗掉他们假日预算的一大部分。

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Most smaller telecoms firms assume they must grow or be gobbled up.

大多数小电信公司认为它们要么增大规模，要么就被吞并。

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And half of medical malpractice payments were gobbled up by lawyers and overheads.

一半的医疗事故赔款落入律师囊中或者作为杂项支出。

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So NewsCorp, whose price doubled when The Wall Street Journal's fell in half, eats up and The Wall Street Journal is gobbled up by the bigger company.

当新闻集团的股价翻倍时,《华尔街日报》的股价却减半,因而《华尔街日报》被报业大鳄吞并

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The Newscorp's rising stock price was a sign that Rupert Murdoch had some idea how to make money and The Wall Street Journal was not doing as well, so it got gobbled up.

新闻集团,全球最大的媒体集团之一默多克家族控制其30%的股份,是鲁珀特·默多克有能力赚钱的标志,而《华尔街日报》做得不好,所以它被吞并了

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So, I gobbled up this book for the stories, and the entrepreneurial lessons between the lines.

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From then on, as the bank gobbled up lenders across the map, Lewis was McColl's integrator.

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They have also increased the proportion of outlays gobbled up by administrators (see chart 2).

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