It would be possible, for instance, for one bookstore to make false claims about the prices offered by a competitor.

例如，一家书店对竞争者的报价作假，这是有可能的。

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In this situation, your may worry that your lover would be grabbed by the competitor.

在这种情况下，你可能会担心你的爱人会被对手拐跑。

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The president had to cool his lips when the news said that the company would be merged by its competitor.

当新闻里透露公司将被其竞争对手并购的时候，这一公司的总裁不得以冷静下来了。

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Its biggest competitor (LivingSocial) is nearly out of business and other would-be players with deep pockets (Amazon and Google) have lost most of their interest in doing much here.

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"AirAsia will initially start on a low-scale but once they scale up their operations, I would expect them to be a formidable competitor in India, " said Kapil Kaul, the South Asia chief executive at aviation consultancy CAPA-Centre for Aviation.

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Safeway, fourth among the U.K.'s retail grocers, would be a tempting target for any of the top three--if only to keep the properties out of a competitor's hands.

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