A likelier explanation is that he clashed, not for the first time, with the chairman of the Volkswagen Group, the wily Ferdinand Piech.

一个更有可能的解释是，他不是第一次与大众集团主席狡猾的费迪南德·皮希发生冲突。

There are likelier explanations.

这里有些可能的解释。

Anger is much likelier to mount than diminish.

愤怒可能增加更多，而不是减少。

That makes it likelier that people will pay over the odds.

这使得人们更有可能付出过高的价格。

By contrast, he is likelier to hinder growth than cultivate it.

与此相反，比起让经济增长，他倒更加可能妨碍增长。