A consortium of dealers bid a world record price for a snuff box

一个商团为一个鼻烟盒喊出了创世界纪录的高价

REMEMBER the urban myth about the inventor who patented a light bulb that would last for ever, only to see the patent snapped up by a consortium of manufacturers who buried it for good?

大家是否还记得这样一个都市神话？ 一位发明者申请了永亮灯的专利，结果是专利被灯具制造商们联合买断，之后为了利益，制造商们把专利销毁了。

It also has oil and gas, which a consortium led by BP is extracting from the Caspian Sea and pumping through new pipelines across Georgia to Turkey and beyond .

它还盛产石油和天然气，隶属于英国石油公司，从里海开采出来，流经横穿格鲁吉亚的新管道，直通土耳其和其他国家。

WiMax has its roots in the wireless broadband access industry and is supported by IEEE, while the LTE standard has been created by a consortium of mobile companies.

WiMax在无线宽带接入行业有基础，也受到IEEE的支持，而LTE标准是由一个移动公司联盟创立的。

A consortium led by Chesf, a state-owned electricity generator, won a contract to build the world's third-largest hydroelectric dam on the Xingu river in the Brazilian Amazon.

由圣弗朗西斯科水电公司这所州立的发电机公司领头的联营企业在致力于在巴西的亚马逊河的兴谷河上建造世界第三大水力发电大坝的合同上取得优势。

The vessel carriers desiring to implement a consortium system shall make an application, accompanying the plan of consortium and relevant documents to MOTC for approval.

船舶运送业申请实施联营，应拟具联营实施计画书，并检附有关文件，报请交通部许可；

The center is a consortium of scientists at Northwestern University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

该中心是由西北大学、明尼苏达大学、密歇根大学以及威斯康星-麦迪逊大学的科学家组成的一个联合体。

Supranationals are owned by a consortium of national governments. They include the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

超国家金融机构由数国政府所有，例如世界银行和欧洲复兴开发银行等。

It eventually chose as preferred bidder a consortium consisting of Magna, an Austro-Canadian auto-parts firm, and Sberbank, Russia’s largest retail bank.

最终选定奥地利加拿大合资的汽车零部件供应商麦格纳国际公司和俄罗斯最大的零售银行俄罗斯储蓄银行组成的财团为投标方。

The obvious candidate was Dan'l Lewin, who at Apple had organized a consortium of universities to buy Macintosh computers in bulk.

很明显，这一职位的合适人选是丹·卢因，卢因后来组织了一个高校联盟，向多家大学批量出售麦金塔电脑。