1·Our firm lost out on this big deal.
我们公司没能做成这笔大买卖。
2·But why would a firm with a legal patent strike such a deal?
但是为什么一个拥有合法专利的公司会进行这样的交易？
3·An ETF tracking the price of oil, for instance, might not buy oil itself, but may make a "swap" deal with another financial firm guaranteeing a payout if the price of oil goes up.
例如，一家跟踪石油价格的ETF基金并不会亲自购买石油，而是同另外一家保证石油价格上涨时给予该基金回报的金融公司进行交易。
4·Another firm always allowed for a single champion to carry a deal through rather than requiring partnership consensus.
另一家公司则总是允许个人推进交易，不要求所有合伙人达成一致。
5·To level the playing field, Sony has struck a deal with Google that gives users free access to more than a million books scanned by the internet firm.
为了扳平比分，索尼与谷歌达成了交易，使它的用户能够免费获取由这家互联网公司扫描到网络上的上百万图书。
6·Or how they try to figure out which PE firm staffers are responsible for each and every deal, rather than just focusing on the best and worst performing transactions.
或者试图弄清私募股权公司对各宗交易负责的是哪些雇员，而不仅仅是关注表现最好和最差的交易。
7·But it is vulnerable. Most clients have stuck with it so far, perhaps fearful that alienating the firm would be bad for business: Goldman is still seen as having unparalleled deal flow.
但它也是脆弱的，大部分客户都跟它这么久，可能害怕公司被孤立会对生意有损，高盛还是被看成具有不平行的交易力。
8·The institute has already screened the drugs in development by Roche, another Swiss firm, under a different deal that also involved waiving patent restrictions.
这个机构已经筛选了另一个瑞士公司——罗氏正在开发的药物，这份不同的协议中同样包括放开专利限制。
9·The same firm has also signed a deal with Kenya to double the power it temporarily supplies the country, to 290MW.
同一家公司与肯尼亚签署了把提供给这个国家的电量临时提高一倍到290MW的协议。
10·The news came after a deal with another Chinese firm, Hawtai, collapsed last week.
另一家中国汽车公司华泰集团收购萨博的交易上周以失败告终。