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And it takes a lot of public money to do so: around 2bn pounds a year for prescriptions alone,
而且這需要大量的公共資金：僅處方一項，每年就有約20億英鎊，
according to independent financial analysis, or a third of Boots’s annual income in the UK.
根據獨立財務分析公司的數據，這個數字相當于博姿在英國年收入的三分之一。
Then come the patient-care services paid for by the taxpayer,
然后是由納稅人支付的病人護理服務，
and the contracts Boots is now taking over from the NHS – to host GP surgeries in its stores,
現在，博姿藥妝正從英國國家醫療服務系統手中接過合同——在其商店里進行全科醫生的手術，
to run pharmacies in hospitals, to manage hearing test centres and specialist clinics monitoring drugs that prevent blood clots.
在醫院開設藥房，經營聽力測試中心和核查預防血栓的藥物的專門診所。
Boots gave Tony work experience in the 1980s while he was training to be a pharmacist.
上世紀80年代，托尼在接受藥劑師培訓時，博姿藥妝給了他工作經驗。
Back then, he said, it was a good employer, “a blue-chip, like Marks and Spencer”.
他說，當時它是一個好雇主，“像瑪莎百貨一樣是藍籌股”。
But by the time he rejoined in 2011, it was under very different owners.
但在他2011年重新加入時，這家公司的所有者已大不相同。
The transformation Tony was about to witness began in spring 2007, when Boots was bought for 11bn pounds.
托尼即將見證的轉型始于2007年春天，當時博姿藥妝以110億英鎊的價格被收購。
This was the frenzied peak of the greatest financial bubble in history and each day’s papers brought news of more crazy deals.
那是歷史上最大的金融泡沫的瘋狂頂峰，每天的報紙上都有更多瘋狂交易的消息。
Still, this stood out: it was the biggest buyout ever seen in Europe.
不過，這筆交易還是凸顯出來：它是歐洲歷史上最大的一筆收購交易。
The deal was backed by one of the world’s largest private equity groups, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR),
該交易得到了全球最大私人股本集團之一科爾伯格·克萊維斯·羅伯特公司的支持。
the debt merchants synonymous with the excesses of 1980s Wall Street.
這些債務商人是上世紀80年代華爾街過度行為的代名詞。
But it was led by the billionaire Stefano Pessina.
但它是由億萬富翁斯特凡諾·佩西納領導的。
Barely a few months earlier, in July 2006, he had merged the wholesaling business he had created, Alliance UniChem, with the venerable British name.
就在幾個月前，也就是2006年7月，他將自己創建的批發公司單化聯盟與這家備受尊敬的英國公司合并。
The result had been Alliance Boots, a Europe-wide pharmacy chain, of which he was a director.
結果就出現了歐洲連鎖藥店聯合博姿，佩西納擔任公司董事。
Now he was buying the entire business, whipping it off the FTSE 100 and into private ownership.
現在，他買下了整個公司，將其從英國股市中剝離出來，轉為私人所有。
