美國商業(yè)大亨傳奇 第86期:掌控全局(13)

With the loss of the Niagara contract, the companyMorgan started with Thomas Edison is broken.

沒拿到尼亞加拉的合同讓摩根和愛迪生建立的公司損失慘重

And Edison's D.C. electricity looks like a failure.

愛迪生的直流電似乎是一個失敗

Thomas Edison is probably the most brilliantinventor America every had.

托馬斯·愛迪生可以說是美國有史以來最聰明的發(fā)明家

And like many brilliant men he was capable of spectacularly wrong choices.

和很多聰明人一樣他也會作出重大的錯誤選擇

As far as Morgan's concerned, there's only one way to fix Edison Electric.

在摩根看來要扭轉(zhuǎn)愛迪生電氣公司的狀況只有一種方式

He's going to streamline the company.

他要對公司進(jìn)行重組

And his first step is to eliminate Thomas Edison.

第一步便是清理掉托馬斯·愛迪生

Morgan buys up additional shares of Edison Electric stock......until he has complete control ofthe company.

摩根買下了愛迪生電氣公司的更多股票 直到成功實現(xiàn)了對公司的完全控制

It's a device that shows moving pictures.

這是一個播放動畫的裝置

We'll put the Niagara business behind us, and Edison General Electric will move forward togreater things.

我們不要再去管尼亞加拉那些事 愛迪生通用電氣將向前看 專注于更偉大的東西

The name of the company has been changed-- to General Electric.

公司名字已經(jīng)改變叫通用電氣

But it's my company.

但這是我的公司

Surely I have a say.

我應(yīng)該有發(fā)言權(quán)

Not anymore-- you no longer have a majority stake.

不再是 你不再擁有多數(shù)股份