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原文閱讀：美國(guó)對(duì)中國(guó)反壟斷執(zhí)法不安

US regulators and businesses have spoken out against an antitrust enforcement pushed by Chinese authorities as the issue emerges as a potential new friction point in relations between the world’s two largest economies.

Foreign investors in China are increasingly concerned that they are being targeted in official investigations of pricing practices, such as one aimed at baby formula manufacturers earlier this year.

“China is wielding its antitrust law in a discriminatory manner targeting foreign companies,” said Jeremie Waterman, executive director for China policy at the US Chamber of Commerce, the largest US business lobby group.
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In an unusually direct speech in Beijing last month, which raised hopes that US policy makers were giving the issue greater attention, Maureen Ohlhausen, a Republican commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission, said that “political decisions” should have no place in antitrust reviews. The FTC conducts antitrust reviews in the US alongside the justice department.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Ms Ohlhausen said there needed to be greater transparency over China’s decisions. “If the Chinese make a decision to impose a remedy or block a deal it can be hard for outsiders to know what was the main motivating factor in that,” she said.
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Despite Ms Ohlhausen’s intervention last month, US officials have generally been reluctant to confront China over antitrust rules, despite being sympathetic to complaints that deals were being unfairly blocked or approved with tough conditions. The matter has not been raised in bilateral economic and trade talks between Beijing and Washington.

Chinese companies and officials have also questioned whether their investments in the US are welcome. US lawmakers used a congressional hearing to raise concerns about Shuanghui’s proposed $4.7bn purchase of Smithfield pork, the largest Chinese takeover of a US company, which is still in the balance.

學(xué)習(xí)指南：

1.Word of the day

antitrust:?preventing companies or groups of companies from controlling prices unfairly?反托拉斯的；反壟斷的

小編注：托拉斯（Trust）直譯為“商業(yè)信托”，是指在一個(gè)行業(yè)（商品領(lǐng)域）中，通過生產(chǎn)企業(yè)間的收購(gòu)、合并以及托管等等形式，由一家公司兼并、包容、控股大量同行業(yè)企業(yè)來達(dá)到企業(yè)一體化目的的壟斷形式。通過這種形式，托拉斯企業(yè)可以對(duì)該行業(yè)市場(chǎng)實(shí)現(xiàn)壟斷，并且通過制定企業(yè)內(nèi)部統(tǒng)一價(jià)格等等手段來使企業(yè)在市場(chǎng)中居于主導(dǎo)地位，實(shí)現(xiàn)利潤(rùn)的最大化。

2.Phrase of the day

motivating factor?：?激發(fā)因素

e.g:The UN's troubled Kyoto treaty on climate change may also be a motivating factor.
例句：讓聯(lián)合國(guó)苦惱不已的京都?xì)夂蜃兓瘲l約也有可能會(huì)成為激發(fā)因素之一。

3.Sentence of the day

US officials have generally been reluctant to confront China over antitrust rules, despite being sympathetic to complaints that deals were being unfairly blocked or approved with tough conditions.?
美國(guó)官員通常不愿在反壟斷裁決上與中國(guó)對(duì)抗，盡管他們對(duì)不公平地被阻止或以苛刻條件獲得批準(zhǔn)的交易的投訴持同情態(tài)度。

小編注：sympathetic和compassionate都有“同情”之意，但在表達(dá)“同情”的含義時(shí)，compassionate主要表示同情心，而sympathetic則多用作表示理解，贊成。

4.Cultural point of the day

為什么嬰兒奶粉叫baby formula：本文第一段中出現(xiàn)了baby formula這個(gè)詞，不常看英語(yǔ)新聞的讀者可能會(huì)誤解，formula這個(gè)單詞我們都很熟悉，解釋為“方程、公式”，但很多人都不知道它還有一種含義，就是特指a special nutritive mixture, esp. of milk, sugar, and water, in prescribed proportions for feeding a baby（為嬰幼兒配制的特殊營(yíng)養(yǎng)物質(zhì)）。

5.Translation of the day

Foreign investors in China are increasingly concerned that they are being targeted in official investigations of pricing practices.
在華外國(guó)投資者越來越擔(dān)心，他們會(huì)像今年早些時(shí)候的嬰兒配方奶粉生產(chǎn)商一樣，成為官方對(duì)定價(jià)行為的調(diào)查目標(biāo)。

小編注：或許是因?yàn)楹椭形牡慕Y(jié)構(gòu)相似，很多人寫作的時(shí)候喜歡用“more and more……”這個(gè)詞來表示“越來越……”的意思，但如果你能用“increasingly”來代替這個(gè)看起來相當(dāng)口語(yǔ)化的詞，相信你的文章會(huì)顯得更專業(yè)。

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