“如果我们这么做，华盛顿将大光其火”，一名熟悉此次会谈的有线电视公司主管说。他谈及了监管机构和国会议员们可能的反应。

"If we did this, Washington would be on fire," says one executive at the cable company who is familiar with the talks, referring to the likely reaction of regulators and lawmakers.

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举个例子，公司需要捕获波士顿的人和田纳西州乡村地区的人的“火”一词的发音。

For example, the company would capture how speakers in Boston and rural Tennessee would each pronounce the word "fire."

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这些公司中尝试进入与原来事业不相关的领域时(那个年代，通过并购重组大公司是很火的)，他们之中的74%在不久后就发生剥离。

Of their forays into unrelated industries (the fashion at the time was for conglomerates), 74% were later divested.

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