In general, incumbents have a 94 percent chance of being re-elected.

一般情况下，现任官员有94%的几率会再次当选。

Needless to say, the incumbents all won.

更不用说，现任都赢得了选举。

And some nimble small ones will sprint past slower incumbents.

一些灵活的小公司也将快步超越那些步伐缓慢竞争者。

The incumbents also reckon live television will remain popular.

任职者还认为电视将继续流行。

Faced with the Skype threat, incumbents have a horrible innovator's dilemma.

目前的市场主导者有一个可怕的两难境地。

Incumbents are going to have to get more efficient and increase their productivity.

现有企业将不得不提高效率和增加产能。

Start-ups that went bust were on average 32% less productive thanmature incumbents.

破产的起步公司的生产效率比起那些屹立已久的成熟公司的生产效率要平均低上32%。

Zuckerberg's advice to "incumbents," as he calls technology giants: "Get on the bus."

扎克伯格关于“现任者”建议是，就像他称之为技术巨人：“上车吧。”

Unlike other incumbents, BT has no mobile arm, having spun off O2 to reduce its debts.

与其他现任者不同，英国电信没有移动分支，出售其O2来减轻债务。

But just as history is written by the victors, surveys are answered by the incumbents.

但是正如历史是由胜者书写，调查是由现存者回答的。

That is another reason for the beleaguered incumbents to seek solace in each other’s embrace.

这也是困境中的企业们从拥抱彼此中寻找安慰的另一个原因。

to succeed, though, they will have to develop the same global ambition as American incumbents.

然而，他们若想要成功，就必须同美国现有的公司一样，有着相同的全球扩展的野心。

By offering cheap and convenient care they expose the costly incumbents of health-care delivery.

通过提供方便廉价的医疗服务，他们将目前昂贵的医疗保健曝光在众人眼前。

Now that Europe's incumbents are moving into each other's markets, competition will only intensify.

现在欧洲的现任者们已经进入了彼此的市场，竞争只能进一步强化。

Over the next 10 years, the battles between incumbents and software-powered insurgents will be epic.

未来十年，现有公司和软件驱动型初创公司之间的竞争将趋于白热化。

The three incumbents relented only after Digicel signed up 100,000 customers in the first three days.

仅仅比Digicel温和一点点的另外三家在职运营商在刚开始的三天就与10万名客户签订了合同。

The incumbents, he says, will generate “fundamentally lower levels of earnings than we've seen historically.”

他说这些现任者将会形成“比我们在历史上所看到的在根本上更低层次的收入”。

For now he can savour his victory, having added Mr Fenty to the swelling ranks of incumbents undone by economic turmoil.

将芬提推向了日益增加的因经济混乱而落马的当局者，现在他可以品味胜利的喜悦。

The competitive landscape gets altered because the Internet allows insurgents to play by different rules than incumbents.

商业版图得以改变是因为互联网使得新竞争者能够不遵守传统的游戏规则。

If anything, giving wireless carriers a greater role in broadband access could make life easier still for the incumbents.

如果真能起什么作用的话，使无线运营商在宽带接入方面发挥更大的作用可能会使现有宽带提供商日子好过一点。

In 2006 Mr Ellsworth was elected to Congress from the "bloody eighth", a southern district fond of booting out incumbents.

2006年，埃尔斯沃思先生从“血腥的第八区”(一个南部选区，一向以赶走现任者而闻名)入选国会。

"You'll hear it over and over," Salzman says. "When an industry transforms, some of the incumbents adapt, but a lot don't."

你可能对此烂熟于心：当一个行业转型时，一些现存的企业能够适应，但大多都不行。

First, the incumbents tended to assume that shovel-handed engineers were just the sort of chaps to run big mining companies.

第一，当职者认为会开挖掘车的工程师就是应该来管理大型矿业公司的。

Start-ups that survived, however, were 3% more productive than mature incumbents; five years later theywere 5% more productive.

然而幸存起步公司比屹立已久的成熟公司要高出3%，五年后，甚至高出5%。

New entrants might be able to make lifts but would struggle to compete with the comprehensive maintenance networks of the incumbents.

市场新进者或许能够制造电梯，但将与现任者全面的维修网络展开艰苦的竞争。

Mr Sarkozy's success was impressive given the recession, the tendency of French voters to punish incumbents and his own unpopularity.

经济不景、法国选举者有惩罚在位者的倾向以及萨科齐最近支持率偏低，在这样的背景下萨科齐本次成功更是令人印象深刻。

A new law on green energy gives few clues as to how new producers can sell power to the grid, or whether the incumbents have to buy it.

新出台的绿色能源法案几乎未说明，新发电商通过何种渠道向电网出售电力，也未说明现在的电力供应企业是否要购买新能源电力。

The information age is making it ever easier for ordinary people to start businesses and harder for incumbents to defend their territory.

信息时代中，普通人要创业更易，而大企业想要守住江山，却难上加难。

In 2011 some of the most venerable incumbents will show the world that they have figured out how to do the creative destruction themselves.

而在2011年一些最受人尊敬的行业标杆将会向世界展示他们自身是如何开展创造性破坏的。