1.tie-up 協作

例句：The tie-up of BHP and Rio Tinto has increased their monopoly power further.

必和必拓和力拓的聯合進一步增強了他們壟斷性的力量7yb2#eKic6HoIDj(。

2.be interested in 對……感興趣

例句：And why should anyone be interested in listening to our cough?

憑什么會有人感興趣來聽我們的咳嗽呢？

3.preliminary agreement 初步協議

例句：The parties reached a preliminary agreement last year and spent the past seven months getting nods from Beijing and the Bahamian government.

雙方去年達成了一項初步協議，過去七個月則在接受北京方面和巴哈馬政府的審批d(-rAclX6-2t4@~-xZQ|。

4.a flurry of 一陣

例句：About that erosion: there has been a flurry of reporting recently about threats to the dominance of America’s elite universities.

關于侵蝕現象：最近關于美國名牌大學的統治地位受到撼動的報道頗有疾風驟雨之勢hRyX](YHfTW2CZ。