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2024年3月26日发(作者：东风启辰d60新能源多少钱)

汽车英语

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According to BMW, their round blue and white logo is the movement

of an aircraft propeller, showing white blades cutting through the blue

sky—anexplanation that BMW adopted for convenience in 1929, twelve

years after the logo was created. In fact the emblem developed from the

round Rapp Motorenwerke company logo, from which the BMW

Company grew, combined with the white and blue colors of the flag of

Bavaria, reversed to produce the BMW logo. However, the origin of the

logo is in dispute. To quote an article recently posted by the New York

Times: “at the BMW Museum in Munich, Anne Schmidt-Possiwal

explained that the blue and white company logo did not represent a

spinning propeller, but was meant to show the colors of the Free State of

Bavaria.”

据宝马称，其圆形的蓝色和白色标志象征着空气工艺螺旋桨的运

动，显示白色刀片划过蓝色天空——为了方便起见宝马通过在1929

年通过了该项解释，十二年后此商标被创建。事实上，宝马商标的产

生源于宝马公司的前生Rapp Motorenwerke公司的商标，同时结合

了巴伐利亚的蓝白旗。然而，此商标的来源还是有争议的。引述最近

由纽约时报的一篇文章：“在宝马的慕尼黑博物馆，Anne

Schmidt-Possiwal解释说，蓝白色的公司标志并不代表旋转的螺旋桨，

而是这个颜色代表了巴伐利亚州的自由。”

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The general Motors Company, also known as GM, is a United

States-based automaker with its headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. The

company manufactures cars and trucks in 34 countries, recently

employed 244,500 people around the world, and sells services and

vehicles in some 140 countries. By sales, GM ranked as the largest US

automaker and the world’s second-largest for 2008, having the

third-highest 2008 global revenues among automakers in the Fortune

Global 500.

On June 1, 2009, the company filed for Chapter 11 reorganization,

which was completed on July 10 of the same year. It was thereafter

reorganized as a new entity that acquired the most valuable assets.

The company focused its business on its four main North American

brands: Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac. In Europe, following

negotiations to sell a majority stake of German brand Opel, GM decided

to keep full ownership. GM sold Saab Automobile to Spyker Cars N.V.,

and closed its doors to Hummer, Pontiac, and Saturn brands, the latter

two dissolved under the former General Motors Corporation, now

known as motors Liquidation Company.

通用汽车公司，又称通用汽车，是一个以美国为基地，其总部设

在密歇根州底特律的汽车制造商。该公司生产轿车和卡车，并雇用了

在世界各地

34

个国家，约

140

个国家销售服务和车辆。

244,500

人，