rival firms

基本解釋

At about 7 p.m., when The Wall Street Journal's Web site broke the news of the $2 price, people at rival firms were stunned.
大約晚上7點(diǎn)，華爾街日?qǐng)?bào)的網(wǎng)站上披露了交易價(jià)格，貝爾斯登的對(duì)手們都被驚呆了。
That is not to say that the antitrust cases that are now under way are without merit, and have merely been stirred up by rival firms.
華盛頓喬治大學(xué)法學(xué)院教授斯蒂文斯婁普稱：“這竝不代表現(xiàn)在正在進(jìn)行中的反壟斷案件不具任何價(jià)值，僅僅是被一些競(jìng)爭(zhēng)公司所煽動(dòng)。
Ofcom, Britain’s telecoms regulator, is considering whether to allow BT to include the cost of pensions when calculating the fees it charges rival firms to rent bits of its network.
作爲(wèi)英國(guó)電信業(yè)的監(jiān)琯者，Ofcom正在考慮是否允許BT在收取競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手租用其網(wǎng)絡(luò)時(shí)的租金時(shí)，將退休金計(jì)算在成本內(nèi)。

Throwing lots of money at brokers from rival firms is one way to do that.
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