The infrastructure required to make a physical newspaper - printing presses, delivery trucks - isn't just expensive; it's excessive at a time when online-only competitors don't have the same set of financial constraints.
制作一份纸质报纸所需的基础设施——印刷机、投递卡车——不仅昂贵；在如今仅在线竞争者没有相同财务约束的情况下，这种投入更是过于庞大了。
Britain's towns, it is true, are not prevented from applying, but they generally lack the resources to put together a bid to beat their bigger competitors.
确实，英国的城镇并不被禁止申请，但它们通常缺乏足够的资源来组织一个能击败更大竞争对手的申办方案。
“They bought the seedlings and closed them down,” complained Paul Arnold, a partner at San Francisco-based Switch Ventures, putting an end to businesses that might one day turn into competitors.
他们收购了这些幼苗并将其关闭，1总部位于旧金山的Switch Ventures合伙人保罗·阿诺德抱怨道，此举终结了可能未来成为竞争对手的企业。
However, critics say the big companies use such deals to buy their most threatening potential competitors before their businesses have a chance to gain momentum, in some cases as part of a“ buy and kill”tactic to simply close them down.
然而，批评者认为，这些大公司利用这些交易在这些企业有机会获得发展势头之前，就买下最具威胁的潜在竞争对手，有时甚至采用‘收购并关闭’的策略，直接将它们关闭。
eliminate their potential competitors
消除他们的潜在竞争对手
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。