查询词典 baronies

Vodafone was no longer the global collection of wireless baronies that Sir Christopher Gent, the firm's swashbuckling boss, had put together in the 1990s through a series of daring acquisitions.

兼并所组成的全球无线运营巨头（barony有巨头的意思）的结合体。

Vodafone was no longer the global collection of wireless baronies that Sir Christopher Gent, the firm's swashbuckling boss, had put together in the 1990s through a series of daring acquisitions.

沃达丰再也不是恃强凌弱的前首席执行官克里斯多夫真特于上世纪90年代通过一系列大胆（不知是不是该译成贬义？）兼并所组成的全球无线运营巨头（barony有巨头的意思）的结合体。

Taking over baronies:攻占男爵领地: A barony switches ownership when the baron's fortress is occupied by the opposition.

当男爵的要塞被敌手所占领，那么该领地的所有权将易主。

Then it was that the great mercantile powers of Spain, France, Holland,and Britain emerged from the combinations of feudal baronies that had kept the Middle Ages in a state of local and constant warfare; that Protestant reformers like Martin Luther and John Calvin finally broke the authority of the medieval chur-state that had dominated Eurpoe since the fall of Rome; that the spirit of inquiry and enjoyment of the senses aroused man to his greatest age of art and learning.

当时，封建贵胄联合——这种联合曾使中世纪不断处于局部的战火动乱之中——促使西班牙、法国、荷兰和英国出现强大的重商力量；诸如马丁。路德和约翰。加尔文等新教改革者最终打破了自罗马失陷以来就始终占据欧洲统治地位的中世纪政教合一的体制；探索精神和感官享受唤醒了人们，使人攀上了艺术和学术的最伟大时期。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。