It comes at a time when authors are already worried about the consequences of the proposed merger between PRH and another big publisher, Simon & Schuster—the reduction in the number of unaligned UK publishers is likely to lead to fewer bidding wars, lower advances, and more conformity in terms of what is published.
这发生在作者们已经担忧PRH与另一家大型出版商西蒙与舒斯特（Simon & Schuster）拟议合并的后果之时——英国独立出版商数量的减少可能会导致竞价战减少、预付稿酬降低，以及在出版内容方面更加趋同。
The merger of publishers is a worrying trend.
出版商的合并是一种令人担忧的趋势。
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。