||1:Yet Silicon Valley’s denizens are not ones to dwell on bad numbers.||2:Vcs are scouting for promising firms whose valuations have dropped and which need fresh capital.||3:Investments in America are only down by 25% compared to before the pandemic, according to PitchBook, a data provider.||4:For startups with cash in the coffers, it is an opportunity to scoop up weaker rivals.||5:On May 12th it emerged that Uber, a shrinking ride-hailing service with a growing meal-delivery arm and $9bn in the bank, is seeking to acquire GrubHub, which also delivers food.||6:A few days earlier Uber led a $170m funding round in Lime, an ailing startup that rents out electric scooters and bicycles.||7:Expect more such deals—and more criticism that the likes of Uber are trying to use the pandemic to monopolise markets.

||1:不过，硅谷居民们不会在意那些糟糕的数字。||2:风投公司正在寻找估值已经下降且需要新资本注入的大有前途的公司。||3:根据数据提供商亿美金(PitchBook)提供的数据显示，新冠爆发后美国的投资只比之前下降了25%。||4:对于资本较为雄厚的初创公司来说，此时正是收购实力较弱的对手的时机。||5:5月12日有消息称，银行存款达90亿美元的优步(Uber)因其叫车服务不断萎缩且送餐业务不断增长，目前正计划收购格鲁(GrubHub)——一家同样提供外卖服务的公司。||6:就在几天前，优步(Uber)带领利姆单车(Lime)进行了一轮1.7亿美元的融资。利姆单车(Lime)是一家经营电动车和自行车租赁业务的初创公司，但其经营境况不佳。||7:类似交易预计还会频发，优步(Uber)等公司企图利用疫情来垄断市场的行为也将受到外界越来越多的批评。

||1:Their first observation, as they report this week in Nature, was that in species where a few males monopolise all the females, with a consequent lack of male involvement in parental care, males were more colourful than females.||2:This is what the theory of sexual selection would predict.||3:What it would not predict in its simple form, though, was a second finding—that females in co-operatively breeding species (those in which, for lack of other opportunities, several females collaborate to raise the young of only one of them) are more ornamented than those in which all adult females have a chance of breeding.||4:In this case it is females who are competing for the right to reproduce, thus putting themselves in a more male-like position.

||1:他们第一次观察报告结果出版在本周《自然》上：在少量雄性配对所有雌性的物种，在亲代抚育中缺少雄性角色的缘故，雄性比雌性更艳丽。||2:这是性选择理论做出的预测。||3:然而，这个简单形式的理论不能预测的是第二个发现：在合作哺育的物种（缺少雄性情况下，几个雌性合作只能抚养其中一个后代），雌性比有机会和雄性一起繁殖后代的雌性更花哨。||4:这个例子中正是雌性完成了繁殖的任务，因此他们扮演了雄性的角色。

America’s decentralised system and multiple checks and balances have long ensured that no single faction can monopolise power.

美国这种权力分散的体制、多重制约及平衡长期确保了没有哪个党派能独揽大权。

For once Rooney did not have to monopolise the stage as England played efficiently and ruthlessly.

在鲁尼并不在最佳状态时，英格兰依然可以踢得卓有成效和冷酷无情。

In the Holy Land local churches are caught between Israeli encroachment on their property and Islamist bids to monopolise Palestinian life.

在圣地，当地的教堂被以色列人侵略财产和被伊斯兰主义者买下垄断巴基斯坦居民的生活。

That does not mean economists should be banned from policy making. But it does suggest they have no right to monopolise central banks.

这倒并不是说经济学家不应参与政策制定，但它的确表明，他们没有权利垄断央行。

Quality is representative of a culture which we Europeans have no reason to let others monopolise .

质量是作为欧洲企业文化的代表观点，我们没有任何理由让其他国家独霸。