Similarly, some Wall Street investment firms armed themselves with patents for financial products, even as they took positions in court cases opposing the practice.
同样，一些华尔街投资公司通过拥有金融产品的专利来武装自己，即使他们在法庭上反对这种做法的案件中持有立场。
He finally took that post at a major financial institution three years later.
三年后，他终于在一家主要的金融机构担任了这一职位。
The phrase “less is more” was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools.
“少即是多”这一说法实际上最早是由一位德国人、建筑师路德维希·密斯·凡德罗（Ludwig Mies van der Rohe）推广开来的，他像其他与包豪斯设计学院有关的人一样，在第二次世界大战前移居美国，并在美国的建筑学院担任教职。
But as Cline is the first to note, it took Beaumont decades to perfect her craft; her example can't be knocked off.
但正如克莱恩首先指出的那样，比蒙特花了数十年时间才精通她的手艺；她的例子无法被轻易复制。
But her appeal was considered a failure: only 24 companies took it up.
但她的呼吁被认为是一次失败：只有24家公司响应了这一倡议。
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。