核心畫面

Picture a building that keeps running exactly as before — same doors, same staff — except the person whose name is on it has changed. A takeover is that moment of the controls passing into someone else's hands: the thing itself stays, the hand on it does not.

可以想成:一棟大樓照常運作,門一樣開、人一樣上班,只是掛在上面的名字換人了。takeover 講的就是「控制權易主」更多收起可以想成:一棟大樓照常運作,門一樣開、人一樣上班,只是掛在上面的名字換人了。takeover 講的就是「控制權易主」的那一刻——東西還在原地,握著它的那隻手變了。換手的方式可以是拿錢買(商業上),也可以是動用武力(政治上),但畫面都是同一個:主導權從一邊移到另一邊。

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

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  • 1

    economicssciencesThe purchase of one company by another; a merger without the formation of a new company, especially where some stakeholders in the purchased company oppose the purchase.

    • If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
  • 2

    economicssciencesThe acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company.

  • 3

    A time or event in which control or authority, especially over a facility is passed from one party to the next.

    • Revollo was absent when Bolivian police and the navy captain arrived at dawn, and the base takeover came off without problems, according to a U.S. narcotics official.
    • The incident erupted as tensions simmered over Donald Trump’s looming takeover of DC and his administration’s use of force to brutally achieve his anti-migrant agenda.
  • 4

    slangAn event at which teens gather in public and act out; a street takeover.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。