Formal price-fixing by cartel and informal price-fixing by agreements covering the members of an industry are commonplace.

通过卡特尔进行的正式价格垄断，以及通过涵盖行业成员的协议进行的非正式价格垄断，都是司空见惯的。

He acted as a frontman for a drugs cartel.

他给一个毒品集团当掩护。

Drug cartel assassins cut off his head.

前任警长被谋杀，贩毒组织割掉了她的头。

Instead of the old monopoly, a new cartel now holds sway.

新的垄断集团取代了旧的，依然占据着支配地位。

Police detained five alleged drug cartel gunmen in the raid.

在搜捕中，警察捕获了五名疑为贩毒集团成员的持枪歹徒。

He cut his teeth breaking up a mob-connected trucking cartel[2].

在打破勾结犯罪团伙垄断货车运输业的某卡特尔一案中，他小试牛刀。 （译注：cut one’s teeth [on sth.]

The IEA even warned of the possible formation of a cartel for natural gas.

国际能源机构甚至警告称，可能会形成一个天然气垄断组织。

The Russians avoided the word cartel but the Iranians spelled it out clearly.

俄罗斯方面还避免用到卡特尔这个词，但伊朗则毫不忌讳。

In some respects, Bretton Woods II appears like a giant money laundering cartel.

在某些方面，布雷顿森林体系II理论似乎就像一个巨大的洗钱卡特尔。

Araceli, however, has received threat letters signed by Los Zetas, another cartel.

然而婀瑞思利收到过另一个卡特尔洛齐塔的恐吓信。

BA and others have already been fined in America and Europe for operating the cartel.

因为运营卡特尔，英国航空公司和其他航空公司此前在美国和欧洲已经被罚。

It no longer exports oil and will officially drop out of the cartel at the year's end.

该国已经不再出口石油，并将于年底正式退出欧佩克。

But in any case it would take a cartel to ensure that bankers are kept in their place.

不过任何情况下，都该采取卡特尔，以确保银行家各司其职。

And they have backed plans by Russia and Iran to create a gas cartel analogous to OPEC.

并且，他们已拟定了由俄罗斯和伊朗支持，建立一个类似欧派克的卡特尔天然气公司的计划。

Signs say two people were killed for denouncing cartel activities on the Internet.

有迹象说，两人因在互联网上谴责贩毒活动而丧生。

In Britain a cartel had a lock on classic works such as Shakespeare's and Milton's.

在英国有一个联合企业把诸如莎士比亚和米尔顿的经典著作很好地封存起来。

The cartel said just last week that it would meet in mid-November, after the United States elections.

这个卡特尔上周表示会在美国大选后的11月中旬召开会议。

A month later victor Mendoza, a senior member of the Zetas, was killed by hit men from the Gulf cartel.

一个月之后来自Zetas叫victor Mendoza的一名高级团伙成员被来自Gulf cartel的打手杀害。

When the same effect is produced by an agreement among several firms, the group of firms is called a cartel.

由多个公司组成的协议联盟，被称之为“卡特尔”的组织也会带来同样的效应。

He also tried but failed to break the cartel-like, uncompetitive behavior of news organizations and reporters.

他也曾试图打破新闻机构和记者中存在的那种联营式的缺乏竞争力的行为，但未能成功。

To the extent that dollar-holders act like an informal cartel, then the biggest dollar-holders will set an example.

在某种程度上，美元的持有者，特别是那些持有最多美元的人，的行为像是一个非正式的卡特尔。

Stanford is also reportedly under investigation for laundering money on behalf of Mexico's infamous Gulf Cartel.

据报道，斯坦福还因替墨西哥臭名远扬的海湾犯罪集团洗钱而接受调查。

But OPEC secretary general said Thursday, the cartel would not boost production, because "oil supplies are adequate".

欧佩克秘书长8日曾表示，由于"原油供应充足"欧佩克不会提高石油产量。

More important, dozens of countries export coal - there is not a coal cartel - so there is more room to negotiate prices.

然而更为重要的是，煤炭出口国有数十个之多，没有一个煤炭卡特尔(企业联合)，因此有更多的议价空间。

A few years ago, China suggested that the major energy consumers organize to deal more effectively with the producers' cartel.

几年前，中国建议主要能源消费国联合起来，更有效地应对能源生产国联盟。这一建议很值得考虑，但目的要更宽泛。

Much of the new plan focuses on boosting intelligence to investigate and prosecute key cartel members, and to confiscate their money.

美国的这一新计划主要着眼于增强情报工作，以调查和起诉贩毒集团头目，并没收他们的钱财。