But the largest chunk of claims by far, about $60 billion, came along with what may ultimately prove to be the single worst acquisition since Paris grabbed Helen, the 2008 purchase of Countrywide.

但目前最大的一笔索赔约600亿美元，来自2008年对Countrywide的购买，这可能帕里斯掳走海伦之后最失败的收购。

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That's often 10 percent of customers' monthly incomes, but they prove eager to purchase.

这大约是顾客每月收入的10%，但是他们非常乐意购买。

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Although that purchase shook many in the American film industry, it did not herald a transformation of Hollywood, nor did it prove a game-changing projection of Japanese cultural power.

尽管那次收购在美国电影界引起了巨大轰动，但却没有给好莱坞带去改变，也算不上是日本文化实力的转折点。

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The purchase of Amena may prove to be a crucial step in the consolidation of European telecoms.

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The following year it bought Jefferson Wells, a specialist accounting-staff firm a purchase that was to prove spectacularly well-timed, just before America's Sarbanes-Oxley act caused a surge in demand for staff to work on internal audits.

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But the horse, High Brow Cat, comes with a semen bank whose value may prove far greater than the purchase price.

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