close down sth.简单

“They bought the seedlings and closed them down,” complained Paul Arnold, a partner at San Francisco-based Switch Ventures, putting an end to businesses that might one day turn into competitors.

“他们买下这些幼苗，然后把它们关掉了，”总部位于旧金山的Switch Ventures的合伙人保罗·阿诺德抱怨道，这样就终结了那些有朝一日可能成为竞争对手的企业。

However, critics say the big companies use such deals to buy their most threatening potential competitors before their businesses have a chance to gain momentum, in some cases as part of a “buy and kill” tactic to simply close them down.

然而，批评者表示，大公司利用此类交易，在最具威胁的潜在竞争对手的业务有机会发展壮大之前就将其买下，有时这是“收购并扼杀”策略的一部分，直接将其关闭。