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Samsung: Group sacrifice
三星：集團(tuán)犧牲
South Korea's giant disbands its controversial strategy unit.
韓國巨頭解散了它名下富有爭議的戰(zhàn)略部門。
“THE de facto dismantlement of the Samsung Group” was how South Korea's semi-official news agency, Yonhap, spun the news on February 28th that the sprawling conglomerate would scrap its Future Strategy Office, a management organisation of some 200 senior staff, and devolve power to individual affiliates as part of broad reforms.
韓國半官方性質(zhì)的新聞社韓聯(lián)社在2月28日發(fā)布消息稱“三星集團(tuán)真正意義上已解散”，這一龐大的聯(lián)合大企業(yè)將會使未來戰(zhàn)略室（是一個約200位高級職員組成的管理機(jī)構(gòu)）岌岌可危，此外作為董事會改革的一部分，它還將權(quán)利移交給個人分公司。
The office had become for many South Koreans a vexing symbol of Samsung's secretive goings-on.
對于許多韓國人來說，戰(zhàn)略室成了三星繼續(xù)遮遮掩掩的煩人象征。
Longtime Samsung-watchers were less impressed.
長久以來，三星的觀察家一直不太引人注目。
The parallels with an earlier disbanding of the same office in 2008, when it was known as the Strategy and Planning Office, were striking.
早在2008年同一個公司解散的相似情況在當(dāng)時就引人注目，這個公司當(dāng)時還是戰(zhàn)略企劃室。
Then, Lee Kun-hee, Samsung's chairman, had been indicted for his involvement in a multi-trillion-won slush-fund scandal.
當(dāng)時三星主席李健熙被指控涉嫌數(shù)億韓元賄賂基金丑聞。
Then, too, the group closed down the office to show it was serious about reform.
也在那時該集團(tuán)關(guān)閉了這個戰(zhàn)略企劃室以表明其對改革的認(rèn)真態(tài)度。
But by 2010 it was reborn as the Future Strategy Office.
但是到2010年它就以未來戰(zhàn)略室重現(xiàn)了。
Lee Kun-hee's son and presumed heir to the Samsung empire, Lee Jae-yong, is the one now behind bars.
李健熙的兒子，也是被認(rèn)為是三星帝國繼承者的李在镕現(xiàn)在在監(jiān)獄里。
This week he was indicted by a special prosecution team on charges of bribery and embezzlement.
本周他被特檢組以貪污賄賂罪指控。
Prosecutors have accused him of paying 43bn won ($38m) to “cultural organisations” closely tied to Choi Soon-sil, a former confidante of South Korea's president, Park Geun-hye.
檢察官控告他給一個與崔順實(shí)緊密相關(guān)的“文化組織”430億韓元，而崔順實(shí)是韓國前任總統(tǒng)樸槿惠的閨蜜。
In return he allegedly received state support for an important merger in July 2015 between two Samsung affiliates.
據(jù)稱作為回報，他會得到國家對2015年7月份兩個三星子公司的重要合并的支持。
The tie-up was viewed as essential to the smooth transfer of power between the 75-year-old Mr Lee, who has been in hospital since 2014, and his son.
這次聯(lián)合被看作75歲的李和兒子權(quán)利交接順利的關(guān)鍵一步，李健熙自2014年就一直在醫(yī)院里。
The family controls Samsung through a complex knot of cross-shareholdings between its 26 affiliates, which operate in businesses ranging from life insurance to smartphones.
李氏家族通過一個在26家子公司復(fù)雜的交叉持股結(jié)構(gòu)來控制三星，這26家子公司的業(yè)務(wù)遍及生活保險到智能機(jī)。
The younger Mr Lee has said he provided the funds, but denies any bribery.
李在镕說他提供了基金，但是否認(rèn)任何賄賂。
譯文來源考研英語時事閱讀
