also-rans

Why he probably won 't : Pitchers on also-rans can win the award .

为什麽不是他得奖：投手在失败的球队可以赢得赛扬奖。

This is why many observers write off other companies as also-rans .

这也是为什么许多观察人士将其他手机公司一概归入失败者的行列。

Some Western consumer-goods firms that are also-rans at home do surprisingly well in China .

一些西方消费品厂家在国内平凡无奇，在中国却混得风生水起。

That leaves a merger with one or more companies that , like Yahoo , are also-rans on the web .

说完前两种选择，再谈谈雅虎与其他一家或者多家公司合并的可能性；这些公司和雅虎一样，大浪淘沙之后，已经沦为互联网产业的配角。

That has left the country relying on alternative methods considered also-rans by American standards , like pumping natural gas from coal fields .

于是，中国不得不依靠其他方法，比如从煤田中开采天然气，而这些方法以美国的标准来看都颇为落后。

Now emerging economy growth is slowing , suggesting that companies from these economies will remain also-rans on the list .

现在，新兴经济体的增长速度正在放慢，这就是说来自这些地区的公司仍无法跻身世界500强。

Whereas the financial systems behind automated teller machines ( ATMs ) used to be considered fast , they 're now also-rans .

自动柜员机（ATM）使用的财务系统虽然称得上快，但是现在也落伍了。

What yesterday 's game demonstrated was that Arsenal have a better chance of a result against the top sides than they do against the also-rans .

昨天的比赛证明了阿森纳面对顶级球队时，拿分的机会要比对中游球队好。

Increasingly , a gulf is emerging between the top business schools and the also-rans ; between schools in different regions of the world and between different types of programmes .

在顶尖商学院和落选学校之间，在全球不同地区的商学院之间，以及在不同类型的MBA项目之间，都越来越能清晰地看到一条鸿沟。

Gates built or bought all manner of things to conquer the Net , but few managed to be anything more than also-rans in the innovation game .

盖茨创造并买来了各式各样的“武器”来征服网络，但几乎全部在创新游戏中落败。

Such also-rans can 't compete with the likes of China Vanke and Gemdale , big boys who can tap banks and international capital markets as well .

这样的小企业无法与中国万科（ChinaVanke）或金地集团（Gemdale）这样的大公司竞争，后者不仅能够从银行获得贷款，还能利用国际资本市场。

In the first 10 months of 2011 the iPad also-rans sold a total of 1.2 million tablets in the U.S. and took in only $ 415 million in retail revenue .

2011年前10个月，iPad的竞争对手在美国市场仅仅销售了120万部平板电脑，销售额为5.15亿美元。

And many of them had something in common : They tended to be the also-rans of the class , the ones who failed to get the jobs they wanted when they graduated .

他们当中许多人都有一个共同点：当初他们往往是班里的失败者，毕业后没能得到自己想要的工作。

The single most significant difference between revolutionaries and also-rans , victors and vanquished today ? A lack of understand of ( and turning a blind eye to ) ethical capital .

今天区分胜负高下的唯一关键是什麽？就看你是否理解「道德资产」，是否把它看在眼里、当一回事。

Yet it is not certain that Tesla has the staying power of a General Motors rather than the shorter life of a Winton Motor Carriage Company or one of the other original also-rans .

然而，现在还不能确定特斯拉是否具备通用汽车（GeneralMotors）那样的持久力，而不是像某个WintonMotorCarriageCompany或者其他最初的平庸企业之一那样短命。

SAIC is seen by some as unenthusiastic about acquiring or merging with Nanjing Auto , which is financially weaker and whose joint venture with Fiat of Italy is seen as one of the domestic industry 's also-rans .

一些人认为，上海汽车集团对于收购或与南京汽车合并并不热心。南京汽车的财务实力较弱，其与意大利菲亚特（Fiat）的合资企业被视为中国国内汽车业的表现平平者之一。

Now it feels like menswear is finally comfortable talking to its natural audience ( as seen so excellently at Zegna in Milan ) , giving their older customers relevant clothes , rather than looks that make them feel like also-rans .

如今感觉男装终于“回归正道”，服务自己的正常群体（米兰时装周上杰尼亚（Zegna）的效果超赞，一目了然），让上了年岁者也有了自己心仪的潮装，而不是那些让他们自感是失败者的行头。

Matt Symonds , a co-director of Fortuna Admissions , a business school admissions consultancy , described a " flight to quality , " with the US market fragmenting between a top tier of schools and the also-rans .

商学院入学咨询机构FortunaAdmissions的联席主管马特•西蒙兹（MattSymonds）描述了“对质量的追求”——美国市场上顶尖商学院和不入流学校日益分化。