It was surely no coincidence, however, that the targets were tiny and in highly competitive industries-so the deals failed to trouble regulators or xenophobes.
这绝非是巧合，不过，目标太小并且在高度竞争的产业里，这样的交易没有麻烦监管机构。
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The British caricature themselves as a nation of insular xenophobes. This helps to disguise the fact that they are living in one of the world's most international countries.
The other insisted it would only encourage nationalists and xenophobes at a time when the country was engulfed in its own debate about refugees and the threat posed by foreigners.