out of business

基本解释

What’s your contingency plan if our competitor buys them or if they go out of business?
如果我们的竞争对手购买它们或者它们倒闭，那您有什么应急计划吗？
If the rockets fail or the capsules have problems, that’s going to affect their future business pretty strongly; in fact it could put them out of business.
他说：“如果火箭发射失败，或者太空舱有问题，那将会非常严重地影响到它们未来的生意。事实上那会迫使它们退出这个行业。
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All of which would have crushed our margins and slowly but surely driven us out of business.
所有这些巨头都会吞噬我们的利润率，缓慢而坚定地将我们挤出这个市场。

In nineteen twenty-nine, six hundred fifty-nine banks with total holdings of two-hundred-million dollars went out of business.
He said "Steve, you don't get it. We're going to put a computer on every desk, in every home. You didn't drop out of business school to be the bookkeeper of a 30 person company."
他说“史蒂夫，你还没尽力呢,我们要让电脑进入每桌每户，你从商学院辍学又不是为了,给一个只有30人的公司当图书管理员的“
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You've got this policy tool of interest rates but once it hits zero you're out of business.
你拥有利率这一政策工具,但是一旦利率达到零点，你便失业了。
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Computerized trading, he says now, put him out of business about two years ago.
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