CNN News: 美國電線電報試圖收購時代華納

AT&T最初的代表什么?

Atlantic Transportation & Transshipping, Associated Tracking & Transfer, Allied Telecom & Telecom, or American Telephone & Telegraph.

大西洋轉(zhuǎn)運(yùn)公司，相關(guān)的跟蹤和轉(zhuǎn)讓，聯(lián)合電信，或美國電信話&電報。

The American Telecom & Telegraph Corporation dates back to the late 1800s.

美國電信和電報公司追溯到19世紀(jì)末期.

AZUZ: A trial is going on right now that`s closely being watched by companies and legal experts around America. AT&T is trying to buy Time Warner, the parent company of CNN, for more than $85 million (ph).

目前正在進(jìn)行的一項試驗受到美國各地公司和法律專家的密切關(guān)注。美國電話&電報公司正試圖以超過8500萬美元的價格收購美國有線電視新聞網(wǎng)的母公司時代華納。

Today, AT&T is a large wireless company and satellite TV distributor. But what it does not have is content programming and entertainment. And that`s why it wants Time Warner, which includes CNN, HBO, Warner Brothers, TNT and TBS.

今天，AT&T是一家大型無線公司和衛(wèi)星電視分銷商。但它沒有內(nèi)容編程和娛樂。這就是為什么它想收購時代華納，包括CNN, HBO，華納兄弟，TNT和TBS。

The merger would be one of the biggest media deals in history, but the U.S. government is trying to block it and one big question is, will the merger break U.S. antitrust laws, which are designed to keep American companies from having too much control over the market.

這項合并將是史上最大的媒體交易之一，但美國政府正試圖阻止它，一個大問題是，合并是否會違反美國的反托拉斯法，該法律旨在阻止美國公司對市場擁有過多的控制權(quán)。