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Consulting firm Parks Associates predicts that legitimate US streaming services’ cumulative loss from piracy since 2022 will reach $113 billion in the next two years.
咨询公司Parks Associates预测，自2022年以来美国正规流媒体服务因盗版造成的累计损失将在未来两年内达到1130亿美元。
“For example, a student with an interest in entrepreneurship could demonstrate skill and potential by starting a profitable small business,” Olivia Valdes, the founder of Zen Admissions consulting firm, wrote in an email.
禅意招生咨询公司创始人奥利维亚·巴尔德斯在一封电子邮件中写道：“例如，一个对创业感兴趣的学生可以通过创办一家盈利的小企业来展示自己的能力和潜力。”
John Kelly, a construction lawyer at Freeths law firm, believes prices will eventually come down.
Freeths律师事务所的建筑律师约翰·凯利认为，价格最终会降下来。
As countless boards and business owners will attest, constraining firms from firing poorly performing, high-earning managers is a handbrake on boosting productivity and overall performance.
正如无数董事会和企业主都会证实的那样，限制公司解雇表现不佳的高薪经理，会阻碍生产率和整体业绩的提升。
If not placing jobs at risk, to the extent employment protection laws constrain business owners from dismissing under-performing managers, those laws act as a constraint on firm productivity and therefore on workers’ wages.
即使没有使工作面临风险，只要就业保护法限制企业主解雇表现不佳的经理，这些法律就会制约企业的生产率，进而制约工人的工资。
And firms pay staff less because firms carry the burden of the employment arrangement going wrong.
而且由于公司要承担雇佣安排出问题的负担，它们会给员工支付更低的工资。
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And firms pay staff less because firms carry the burden of the employment arrangement going wrong.
而且由于公司要承担雇佣安排出问题的负担，它们会给员工支付更低的工资。
In New Zealand, a 2016 private members’ Bill tried to permit firms and high-income employees to contract out of the unjustified dismissal regime.
在新西兰，2016年的一项议员私人法案试图允许企业和高收入员工通过合同约定不受不正当解雇制度的约束。
affect the public image of the firms.
影响公司的公众形象
Unfortunately, many people who are opting to work in retirement are preparing to do so because they are worried about making ends meet in their later years, said Brent Weiss, a co-founder at Baltimore-based financial-planning firm Facet Wealth.
总部位于巴尔的摩的理财规划公司Facet Wealth的联合创始人布伦特·韦斯说，不幸的是，许多选择在退休后工作的人之所以准备这样做，是因为他们担心晚年难以维持生计。
bring web-based firms under control.
控制网络公司。
One accounting firm, EY, uses an AI system that helps review contracts during an audit. This process, along with employees reviewing the contracts, is faster and more accurate.
会计师事务所安永使用一套人工智能系统，在审计中帮助审查合同。这一过程再加上员工对合同的审查，速度更快，也更准确。
In some ways the scientific publishing model resembles the economy of the social internet: labour is provided free in exchange for the hope of status, while huge profits are made by a few big firms who run the market places.
从某些方面来看，科学出版模式与社交网络经济相似：劳动力被免费提供，以换取获得地位的希望，而巨额利润则被少数几家经营市场平台的大公司赚走。
The best model for understanding the growth of CEO pay is that of limited CEO talent in a world where business opportunities for the top firms are growing rapidly.
理解首席执行官薪酬增长的最佳模型是：在一个顶级公司商业机会迅速增长的世界里，首席执行官人才是有限的。
Today’s CEO, at least for major American firms, must have many more skills than simply being able to “run the company.”
如今的首席执行官，至少就美国大公司而言，必须具备的技能远不止于能够“经营公司”。
Increased business opportunities for top firms.
顶级公司商业机会的增加。
Transient investors, who demand high quarterly profits from companies, can hinder a firm’s efforts to invest in long-term research or to build up customer loyalty.
短期投资者要求公司获得高额季度利润，这可能会妨碍公司投资于长期研究或培养客户忠诚度的努力。
Soon after Sketches by Boz appeared, a publishing firm approached Dickens to write a story in monthly installments, as a backdrop for a series of woodcuts by the then-famous artist Robert Seymour, who had originated the idea for the story. With characteristic confidence, Dickens successfully insisted that Seymour’s pictures illustrate his own story instead. After the first installment, Dickens wrote to the artist and asked him to correct a drawing Dickens felt was not faithful enough to his prose. Seymour made the change, went into his backyard, and expressed his displeasure by committing suicide. Dickens and his publishers simply pressed on with a new artist. The comic novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, appeared serially in 1836 and 1837, and was first published in book form in 1837.
《博兹随笔》问世后不久，一家出版公司找到狄更斯，请他按月分期创作一个故事，作为当时著名画家罗伯特·西摩一系列木刻画的背景故事，而这个故事的构想最初正是出自西摩。狄更斯以他特有的自信，成功地坚持让西摩的画反过来为他自己的故事配图。第一期刊出后，狄更斯写信给这位画家，要求他修改一幅狄更斯认为不够忠实于其文字的插图。西摩改了画，走进自家后院，以自杀的方式表达了他的不满。狄更斯和他的出版商干脆换了一位新画家继续推进。这部喜剧小说《匹克威克俱乐部遗稿》于1836年和1837年连载，并于1837年首次以书籍形式出版。
“They’re harder to find and they have job offers,” says Jay Dunwell, president of Wolverine Coil Spring, a family-owned firm.
“工人更难找了，而且他们手里有工作机会，”家族企业金刚狼螺旋弹簧公司的总裁杰伊·邓韦尔说。
The largest firms in America and Britain together spend more than $15 billion a year on CSR, according to an estimate by EPG, a consulting firm.
据咨询公司EPG估计，美国和英国最大的企业每年在企业社会责任上的支出合计超过150亿美元。
The largest firms in America and Britain together spend more than $15 billion a year on CSR, according to an estimate by EPG, a consulting firm.
据咨询公司EPG估计，美国和英国最大的企业每年在企业社会责任上的支出合计超过150亿美元。
The study found that, among prosecuted firms, those with the most comprehensive CSR programmes tended to get more lenient penalties.
研究发现，在被起诉的公司中，那些企业社会责任项目最全面的公司往往受到较轻的处罚。
Their analysis ruled out the possibility that it was firms’ political influence, rather than their CSR stand, that accounted for the leniency: Companies that contributed more to political campaigns did not receive lower fines.
他们的分析排除了一种可能性，即从轻处罚是因为公司的政治影响力而非其企业社会责任立场：为政治竞选捐款更多的公司并没有被处以更低的罚款。
And new research suggests that happiness might influence [how] firms work, too.
而新的研究表明，快乐可能也会影响公司{{1}}运作。
[In particular], firms in happy places spend more on R&D (research and development).
{{2}}，位于快乐地区的公司在研发（研究与开发）上投入更多。
So they compared U.S. cities’ average happiness [measured] by Gallup polling with the investment activity of publicly traded firms in those areas.
于是他们将盖洛普民调{{6}}的美国各城市平均幸福度与这些地区上市公司的投资活动进行了比较。
[Sure] enough, firms’ investment and R&D intensity were correlated with the happiness of the area in which they were [headquartered].
{{7}}，公司的投资和研发强度与其{{8}}所在地区的幸福度相关。
But is it really happiness that’s linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities [explain] why firms there spend more on R&D?
但与投资相关的真的是快乐吗？还是更快乐的城市的其他某些因素可以{{9}}那里的公司为何在研发上投入更多？
To find out, the researchers controlled for various [factors] that might make firms more likely to invest — like size, industry, and sales — and for indicators that a place was [desirable] to live in, like growth in wages or population.
为了弄清楚这一点，研究人员控制了可能使公司更倾向于投资的各种{{10}}——如规模、行业和销售额——以及表明一个地方{{11}}居住的指标，如工资或人口的增长。
The correlation between happiness and investment was particularly strong for younger firms, which the authors [attribute] to “less codified decision making process” and the possible presence of “younger and less [experienced] managers who are more likely to be influenced by sentiment.”
快乐与投资之间的相关性在较年轻的公司中尤为明显，作者将此{{13}}于“不那么成文化的决策过程”以及可能存在的“更年轻、更缺乏{{14}}、更容易受情绪影响的管理者”。
Firms seem to invest more in places where most people are relatively happy, rather than in places with happiness inequality.
公司似乎在大多数人都相对快乐的地方投资更多，而不是在幸福感不平等的地方。
[While] this doesn’t prove that happiness causes firms to invest more or to take a longer-term view, the authors believe it at least [hints] at that possibility.
{{17}}这并不能证明快乐会使公司投资更多或着眼更长远，但作者认为它至少{{18}}了这种可能性。
These terms are also intended to infuse work with meaning — and, as Rakesh Khurana, another professor, points out, increase allegiance to the firm.
这些词语还意在为工作注入意义——而且正如另一位教授拉凯什·库拉纳所指出的，还能增强员工对公司的忠诚。
But most law graduates never get a big-firm job.
但大多数法学毕业生始终没能进入大律所工作。
Except in the District of Columbia, non-lawyers may not own any share of a law firm.
除哥伦比亚特区外，非律师不得持有律师事务所的任何股份。
There is pressure for change from within the profession, but opponents of change among the regulators insist that keeping outsiders out of a law firm isolates lawyers from the pressure to make money rather than serve clients ethically.
行业内部存在要求变革的压力，但监管者中反对变革的人坚持认为，将外人挡在律所之外，能使律师免受只顾赚钱、而不合乎职业道德地为客户服务的压力。
In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms’ efficiency.
事实上，允许非律师持有律所股份可以降低成本、改善对客户的服务，因为这会促使律所运用技术，并聘用职业经理人专注于提高律所的效率。
In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms’ efficiency.
事实上，允许非律师持有律所股份可以降低成本、改善对客户的服务，因为这会促使律所运用技术，并聘用职业经理人专注于提高律所的效率。
In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms’ efficiency.
事实上，允许非律师持有律所股份可以降低成本、改善对客户的服务，因为这会促使律所运用技术，并聘用职业经理人专注于提高律所的效率。
the prospect of working in big firms.
在大律所工作的前景。
keeps lawyers from holding law-firm shares.
阻止律师持有律所股份。
flawed ownership of America’s law firms and its causes.
美国律所有缺陷的所有权及其成因。
DNT does not seem an obviously huge selling point for Windows 8 — though the firm has compared some of its other products favourably with Google’s on that count before.
DNT似乎并不是Windows 8一个明显的重大卖点——尽管该公司以前曾在这一点上拿自己的其他一些产品与谷歌的产品作比较，以显示自身的优势。
The chief executive of Myriad, a company in Utah, said the ruling was a blessing to firms and patients alike.
这家位于犹他州的公司的首席执行官说，该裁决对企业和患者都是福音。
Firms are now studying how genes interact, looking for correlations that might be used to determine the causes of disease or predict a drug’s efficacy.
各公司如今正在研究基因如何相互作用，寻找可用于确定病因或预测药效的关联。
Outside directors are supposed to serve as helpful, yet less biased, advisers on a firm's board.
外部董事理应在公司董事会中充当有益且较少偏见的顾问。
The researchers from Ohio University used a database that covered more than 10,000 firms and more than 64,000 different directors between 1989 and 2004.
俄亥俄大学的研究人员使用了一个数据库，其中涵盖了1989年至2004年间一万多家公司和六万四千多名不同的董事。
The effect tended to be larger for larger firms.
公司规模越大，这种影响往往越明显。
Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive, it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship.
尽管董事离职与公司随后表现不佳之间的相关性耐人寻味，但这并不意味着这些董事总是在弃沉船而逃。
Often they “trade up,” leaving riskier, smaller firms for larger and more stable firms.
他们往往是“跳槽高就”，离开风险更大、规模更小的公司，去往规模更大、更稳定的公司。
Often they “trade up,” leaving riskier, smaller firms for larger and more stable firms.
他们往往是“跳槽高就”，离开风险更大、规模更小的公司，去往规模更大、更稳定的公司。
But the researchers believe that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputations if they leave a firm before bad news breaks, even if a review of history shows they were on the board at the time any wrongdoing occurred.
但研究人员认为，如果外部董事在坏消息曝光之前离开公司，他们就更容易使自己的声誉免受打击，即使回顾历史会发现不当行为发生时他们正在董事会任职。
Firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives.
想要在困难时期留住外部董事的公司，可能不得不制定激励措施。
According to the researchers from Ohio University, after an outside director's surprise departure, the firm is likely to ____
根据俄亥俄大学研究人员的说法，外部董事意外离职后，公司很可能____
may stay for the attractive offers from the firm.
可能会因公司提供的诱人条件而留任。
have often had records of wrongdoings in the firm.
常常在公司有不当行为的记录。
are accustomed to stress-free work in the firm.
习惯于在公司做没有压力的工作。
will decline incentives from the firm.
会拒绝公司的激励措施。
Such a move could affect firms such as McDonald's, which sponsors the youth coaching scheme run by Football Association.
这样的举措可能会影响麦当劳之类的公司，麦当劳赞助了英格兰足球总会开展的青少年培训计划。
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highlights his firm stand against lobby pressure.
突显了他反对游说压力的坚定立场。