1：In the old days the bell Telephone Company became the biggest in the world by buying up a lot of local phone companies, lock, stock and barrel and merging them into one giant corporation.
他说：Bell电话公司当初收购了许多地方电话公司，把这些小公司统统合并成一家庞大的企业，Bell公司这才跃居世界首位。 Bell公司一古脑儿地网罗了那些小公司，以成为规模巨大的企业，所以这里的 lock, stock and barrel 显然解释“统统地、一古脑儿地。”
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Regulators have required the merging businesses to sell wireless spectrum, network infrastructure and other assets in some local markets to win their approval.