The conventional wisdom is that the war somehow magically transformed the doom and gloom of the depression into the u.s. standing like a colossus astride the world in 1948 .
The largest merger in history followed , creating a colossus named citigroup with $ 700 billion in assets .
在这次历史性的兼并之后,一个资产高达7000亿美元,名为花旗集团的庞然大物被建立起来。
As wall street grew into a colossus , so did the investment bank compensation system .
随着华尔街发展成庞然大物,投行的薪资体系也随之膨胀。
" The colossus " is transported in front of the fine arts palace
“巨人像”运送到艺术宫前。
Apple has become a colossus of capitalism , accounting for 4.3 % of the value of the s & p 500 and 1.1 % of the global equity market .
占标准普尔500指数成份股4.3%及全球股市1.1%的苹果公司业已成为一个资本主义巨人。
Those who take pleasure in america 's discomfort point out that this global economic colossus has become shackled to the world 's largest pile of international debt and pulled down by a sinking currency .
In a world ravenous for natural resources , two of the world 's most powerful raw-materials companies are in talks to combine into an $ 80 billion colossus that would play a powerful role in an industry that supplies auto makers , chocolatiers and power companies .