[A] the vicious rivalry among big pharmas.

大型制药公司之间的恶性竞争。

We had big pharma against us.

我们有大药业要对付我们。

Like big pharma, though, the biotech startups have struggled to make money from antibiotics.

虽然和大型制药公司一样，生物科技创业公司也难以从抗生素中赚钱。

And I'm not saying there aren't problems with big pharma.

我不是说大型药企没有问题。

You know the pharma companies who didn't get involved nobody's criticizing them.

其它没参与研发的药企，可没有人去批评它们。

For years pharma firms have offered a patchwork of plans to help customers afford insulin and other drugs.

多年来，制药公司提供了各种各样的计划来帮助客户负担胰岛素和其他药物。

Swiss pharma giant Novartis also has a particular set of interests in the workings of the new U.S. Administration.

瑞士制药巨头“诺华”对美国新政府的运作也有着格外浓厚的兴趣。

The Beach Boys still sound groovy, but your dancing now involves a cane and poly pharma.

海滩男孩听起来仍然很时髦，但你的舞蹈现在涉及手杖和聚合药物。

And so what does that actually mean for the pharma companies?

那么这对制药公司究竟意味着什么呢？

Jamie Smyth is the FT's US pharma correspondent. Thanks, Jamie.

杰米·史密斯 (Jamie Smyth) 是英国《金融时报》驻美国制药记者。谢谢，杰米。

That's perhaps twice as much as the average pharma company invests.

这可能是一般制药公司投资的两倍。

A few governments start working with pharma companies to get compensation for Indigenous communities.

一些政府开始与制药公司合作，为原住民社区获得补偿。

In the eyes of a lot of people, big pharma is like big tobacco.

在很多人眼中，大型制药公司就像大型烟草。

But competing with big pharma on their own terms might not be the only way.

但以自己的方式与大型制药公司竞争可能不是唯一的方法。

So our global pharma correspondent Hannah Kuchler started looking into it.

因此，我们的全球医药记者 Hannah Kuchler 开始对此进行调查。

These protect what would otherwise be illegal kickbacks between greedy pharma companies, pharmacy benefit managers and other middlemen.

这些可以保护贪婪的制药公司、药品福利经理和其他中间人之间的非法回扣。

As long as big pharma can get away with zero transparency and patent abuse, they will.

只要大型制药公司能够在零透明度和专利滥用的情况下逃脱惩罚，他们就会这样做。

The poison pill, it seems, has a place in the pharma business.

毒丸似乎在制药行业占有一席之地。

That makes him just the man for a company that is betting big on its pharma business across the Atlantic.

这使他成为一家在大西洋彼岸的制药业务上押下重注的公司的合适人选。

And why would anyone ever suggest there was a benefit to nicotine, other than maybe the tobacco companies or big pharma?

除了烟草公司或大型制药公司之外，为什么有人会认为尼古丁有好处呢？