||1:As The Economist went to press the firm was expected to raise and formalise its bid for AstraZeneca, currently at 63 billion.||2:The government expects a sweeter offer, too.||3:Mr Read’s promises are just a “starting point” for negotiations, says Vince Cable, the business secretary, who wants more binding commitments.||4:Others insist they should last longer than five years, as currently stipulated: drug development often takes decades.||5:Mr Cameron now says he too is unsatisfied.||6:He and Ed Miliband, the Labour Party leader, are competing to sound tougher on Pfizer.

||1:截止本刊发稿，辉瑞制药预期将提高其对阿斯利康的投标，并予以正式化，目前为止为投标价为630亿英镑。||2:英国政府也期待一个更为丰厚的条件。||3:商务大臣文斯·凯博想得到更多有约束力的承诺，他表示，雷德的承诺不过是谈判的“起点”。||4:还有人认为，这两家的拉锯战可能持续五年以上，因为根据规定：医药发展常常耗时数十年之久。||5:首相卡梅伦现在同样表示，他也不满意。||6:在辉瑞收购的问题上，他和工党党首埃德·米利班德就谁态度更强硬一较高下。

Maths was needed to formalise most of the ideas in our briefs.

在我们这个系列中，数学之所以有需要是为了让大多数思想规范化。

The broader aim is to formalise land tenure in a country where only 40% of farms have titles and only half have been valued.

长远的目标是要正式形成土地所有制，这个国家仅有40%的农场有地契，仅一半被评估。

The maps are to be attached to a long-overdue presidential decree meant to formalise the moratorium.

该地图附带了一份被推迟了很久的总统法令，意思是想使禁令正式化。

It included new powers for the Federal Reserve that formalise its attempt at policies to stabilise the markets.

该计划涉及赋予美联储新的权力，使其为稳定市场而做出的政策努力更有效。

Turkey could perhaps then formalise ties with Iraqi Kurdistan, among other things by opening a consulate in Erbil.

然后土耳其就可以与伊拉克库尔德斯坦建立正式关系。这种关系的内容很广泛，比如在埃尔比勒建立领事馆就是其中之一。

If the meeting decided to raise quotas by anything up to this figure, it would only formalise existing overproduction.

如果本次会议决定上调的幅度在这个水平之内，不过是将当前的超额生产予以正式化。

I would like to formalise how specific charities can benefit from a percentage of my investments, giving them long-term benefits.

我希望能正式确定，自己的投资会给特定的慈善团体带来怎样的益处，令它们长期受益。

In academia Ben Bernanke, now the chairman of the Federal Reserve, sought to formalise Fisher’s debt-deflation theory.

在学术界，现任美联储主席伯南克（BenBernanke），曾试图完善整理费雪的债务--通缩理论。

China maintains a threat to invade Taiwan should the island formalise its de facto independence.

中国大陆威胁称，如果台湾将其实际上的独立地位正式化，将对台使用武力。