Nasa funding private companies to do what Nasa wants to do — is that feasible?

美国宇航局资助私营公司做美国宇航局想做的事情——这可行吗？

SpaceX is a privately funded space exploration company that hopes to lead the way.

而SpaceX就是走在业界最前端的一家私人赞助太空探索公司。

Plus, the International Space Station is being decommissioned and the US space agency Nasa is funding private companies to help continue its work.

此外，国际空间站正在退役，而美国宇航局正在资助私营公司帮助其继续工作。

Morgan used his company's considerable funds to buy the coffee, then leveraged his connections in the area to find buyers that the ship captain never could.

摩根用公司的巨额资金购买了咖啡，然后利用他在当地的关系找到了船长永远都无法找到的买家。

But PE firms also need to purchase private companies fortheir new funds, ideally at low valuations if they are to make the juicy returns theirinvestors have come to expect.

但如果想获得投资者期望的丰厚回报，私人股本公司也需要为其新基金收购私人公司，且最好以较低的估值收购。

The privately funded company currently employees a handful of bike-riding engineers who spend their days thinking of new ways to tap liquid energy flowing through pipes.

这家私人投资的公司目前雇佣了一些骑自行车的工程师，他们整天都在思考新的方法来利用流经管道的液体能量。

More than a dozen women told the Financial Times they were sexually assaulted and harassed by the founder of one of London's best known hedge fund companies.

十几名女性告诉英国《金融时报》，她们遭到伦敦最著名对冲基金公司之一的创始人的性侵犯和骚扰。

Morgan used his company's considerable funds to buy the coffee, then leveraged his connections in the area to find buyers that the ship captain never could. He sold the coffee at a significant rate of return.

摩根用公司的巨额资金购买了咖啡，然后利用他在当地的关系找到了船长永远都无法找到的买家。他以很高的回报率出售了咖啡。