If a company is in trouble, a big sale may be seen as an important part of a turnaround.

而如果公司处于困境，大宗业务的出售则被视为公司业务反转的重要部分。

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In fact, the whole offer for sale could be seen as a cynical, if necessary, charade.

事实上，整个竞价过程都可被视为嘲讽的儿戏，尽管这是必需的。

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This was widely seen as a prelude to the sale of the mobile business to reduce the company's huge debts.

大多数人认为，这是公司将移动业务卖出的前兆——此举旨在减轻公司债务。

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At the time the sale was widely seen as beneficial toward buying Reuters.

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Changes in the number of houses for sale are widely seen as a good 'leading indicator' of price-changes: in a boom-period there are more buyers than sellers, so the number of properties for sale diminishes, and in a 'bust' period sellers exceed the number of those willing to buy at current prices, so prices tend to fall, as seems already to be happening in many areas.

BBC: NEWS | Business | UK house prices go into reverse

Harking back to the question I posed at the end of my last post, the Rock sale could therefore be seen as a harbinger of eurozone meltdown - just as its collapse in 2007 marked, for many, the beginning of the original credit crunch.

BBC: Have taxpayers got a decent deal on the Northern Rock sale?