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Scott had encountered Pessina once before.
斯科特以前見過佩西納一次。
The two had met in the summer of 2006 – just after Boots’s merger with Alliance Unichem, but a few months before the buyout.
兩人是在2006年夏天相識的——就在博姿與聯合醫藥合并之后，但是是在這次收購的幾個月前。
Pessina’s team had taken some of the top officials in Scottish pharmacy to the Balmoral in Edinburgh,
佩西納的團隊帶著蘇格蘭藥房的一些高級官員去了愛丁堡的巴爾莫勒爾堡酒店，
a five-star hotel that still stations kilted doormen at the entrance.
這是一家五星級酒店，門口仍有穿著短裙的門衛。
Over what another attendee remembers as a “grand dinner”, the Boots team gathered intelligence about Holyrood’s plans for their industry.
在另一位與會者的回憶中，這是一場“盛大的晚餐”，博茨團隊收集了關于霍利魯德對他們行業計劃的情報。
For his part, Scott wanted to know what Pessina had planned for Britain’s most important community pharmacist.
斯科特想知道佩西納對英國最重要的社區藥房有什么計劃。
“The question I asked him was: ‘Are you going to stay in the health sector on the stock market?’”
“我問他的問題是：‘你會繼續留在股市的醫療行業嗎？’”
Each business on the FTSE (where Alliance Boots was then listed) is categorised in a particular sector,
在富時指數(聯合博姿當時在富時指數上上市)上，每家公司都被劃分在一個特定的行業，
so Barclays can be found under “banks”, BAE Systems under “aerospace” and so on.
因此，巴克萊銀行被歸入“銀行”類，英國航空航天系統公司被歸入“航空航天”類，等等。
Behind that innocently technical query lay a much bigger question – “I was asking: ‘Where’s your focus?’”
在這個天真的技術問題背后，隱藏著一個更大的問題——“我在問：‘你的關注點在哪里？’”
Pessina seemed to grasp Scott’s meaning. “He said, ‘Bill, this is a very good question and I understand why you’re asking it.
佩西納似乎領會了斯科特的意思?！八f，‘比爾，這是一個非常好的問題，我理解你為什么問這個問題。
But as well as pharmacy, there’s a bit of retailing – so we want to be in the retail sector.”
但是除了制藥，還有一點零售——所以我們希望公司劃分為零售行業?！?/div>
It appeared that Pessina saw the future of Boots not as a healthcare business but alongside Marks and Spencer, Next and Carpetright.
佩西納似乎并沒有將博姿視為一家醫療保健企業，而是將其與瑪莎百貨、耐斯特公司和卡佩特公司放在一起。
“I didn’t see him as someone with a clinical care,” Scott told me.
“我不認為他有考慮臨床護理，”斯科特告訴我。
“He’d just seen another market to get into to make money.”
“他只是看到了另一個可以賺錢的市場?！?/div>
Whether Bill Scott was right would determine life for Tony and his patients – and millions like them.
比爾·斯科特的判斷是否正確，將決定托尼和他的病人——以及數百萬和他一樣的病人的生活。
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| stock | [stɔk] |
想一想再看 n. 存貨，儲備; 樹干; 血統; 股份; 家畜 |
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| technical | ['teknikəl] |
想一想再看 adj. 技術的，工藝的 |
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| query | ['kwiəri] |
想一想再看 n. 質問，疑問，疑問號 vt. 質問，對 ... 表示 |
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| determine | [di'tə:min] |
想一想再看 v. 決定，決心，確定，測定 |
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| pharmacist | ['fɑ:məsist] |
想一想再看 n. 藥劑師，藥商 |
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| clinical | ['klinikəl] |
想一想再看 adj. 臨床的 |
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| retail | ['ri:teil] |
想一想再看 n. 零售 |
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| particular | [pə'tikjulə] |
想一想再看 adj. 特殊的，特別的，特定的，挑剔的 |
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| intelligence | [in'telidʒəns] |
想一想再看 n. 理解力，智力 |
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| understand | [.ʌndə'stænd] |
想一想再看 vt. 理解，懂，聽說，獲悉，將 ... 理解為，認為< |
