1·GM had been talking with Daewoo for over a year.
通用公司与大宇汽车公司谈了近一年。
2·GM's deal with Daewoo Motor marks the end of an even longer and more painful process.
通用汽车公司与大宇汽车公司的交易标志着一个甚至更长和更痛苦的过程的结束。
3·Ford almost bought the carmaker two years ago, but pulled out after finding that Daewoo would be too hard to turn round.
两年前，福特公司几乎购买了这家汽车制造厂，但发现很难使大宇汽车公司起死回生后知难而退。
4·Look at the names they picked for their enterprises: Daewoo (" Great Universe "), Hyundai (" the Modern Era ") and Samsung (" Three Stars ", implying a business that would be huge and eternal).
看看他们为自己的企业中挑选的名称吧：大宇(“大宇宙”)、现代(“现代时代”)和三星(“三星级”，意味着企业是巨大的、永恒的)。
5·After the crisis, about half the chaebol went to the wall; at the time, Daewoo's collapse was the biggest corporate bankruptcy in history.
亚洲金融危机后，一半的公司都倒闭了。其间，大宇的倒闭成了史上最大的集团破产案件。