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The fact that fires happened so often meant they couldn’t have been severe enough to kill most trees.

火灾发生得如此频繁，这意味着它们不可能严重到足以烧死大部分树木。

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。

Already, since 2010, drought and insects have killed over 100 million trees in California, most of them in 2016 alone, and wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres.

自2010年以来，干旱和虫害已经导致加州超过1亿棵树木死亡，其中大部分仅在2016年就已死亡，而野火已烧毁了数十万英亩土地。

find more effective ways to kill insects.

寻找更有效的杀虫方法。

Under the plan, for example, the agency said it would not prosecute landowners or businesses that unintentionally kill, harm, or disturb the bird, as long as they had signed a range-wide management plan to restore prairie chicken habitat.

例如，根据该计划，该机构表示不会起诉无意中杀死、伤害或惊扰这种鸟的土地所有者或企业，只要他们签署了一项旨在恢复草原鸡栖息地的全范围管理计划。

In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing?

在一个如此执着地颂扬生儿育女的社会里，承认自己后悔生孩子就等同于承认自己支持虐杀小猫，这有什么奇怪的呢？

But postal special-interest groups seem to have killed it, at least in the House.

但邮政特殊利益集团似乎已经扼杀了这一提议，至少在众议院是如此。