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Blackstone is the largest commercial landlord in history.
黑石集团是历史上最大的商业地主。
Over the past two decades, it has quietly taken control of apartment blocks, care homes, student housing, railway arches, film studios, offices, hotels, logistics warehouses and datacentres.
在过去20年里，黑石集团悄无声息地掌控了公寓楼、疗养院、学生宿舍、铁路拱桥、电影工作室、办公室、酒店、物流仓库和数据中心。
Blackstone doesn’t just own real estate, it owns everything – or that’s how it can feel when you start to examine its bewildering array of assets.
黑石集团不仅拥有房地产，还拥有一切——当你开始调查这个集团令人眼花缭乱的大批资产时，拥有一切就是你对它的感觉。
If you wear Spanx, have ever matched with someone on Bumble, stayed in a Hilton hotel or a CentreParcs resort, visited Legoland, Madame Tussauds, the London Dungeon or an elderly relative at a Southern Cross care home, you have encountered a company that forms, or has recently formed, part of the Blackstone empire.
如果你身着Spanx品牌的衣服，曾在Bumble(交友软件)上和某人匹配过，住过希尔顿酒店或中心公园度假村，参观过乐高主题公园、杜莎夫人蜡像馆、伦敦地牢，或是拜访过南十字护理中心的老人，那么你遇到的这个公司组成或刚刚组成黑石集团帝国的一部分。
The New York headquarters of Blackstone are located in a skyscraper on Park Avenue.
黑石集团纽约总部位于公园大道的一座摩天大楼里。
Every Monday, the firm’s founder Steve Schwarzman and chief operating officer Jon Gray gather with senior partners around a large conference table on the 31st floor to discuss investment memos sent the previous week by teams in the company’s 26 offices in the US, Europe and Asia.
每周一，该公司创始人史蒂夫·施瓦茨曼和首席运营官乔恩·格雷会与高级合伙人围坐在31楼的一张大会议桌旁，商讨上周由该公司在美国、欧洲和亚洲的26个办事处的团队发送的投资便函。
It’s here that Blackstone’s investment decisions are made.
黑石集团的投资决策就是在这里做出的。
Last year, the company invested $270bn, bringing the total value of the assets it manages to $881bn, slightly more than the gross domestic product of Switzerland, and more than twice that of Denmark.
去年，该公司投资了2700亿美元，使其管理的资产总值达到8810亿美元，略高于瑞士国内生产总值，是丹麦国内生产总值的两倍多。
The Monday meeting resembles an intense seminar whose participants zero in on the weaknesses in proposals that pass before them.
周一的会议类似于一场紧张的研讨会，与会者将注意力集中在他们面前通过的提案的弱点上。
Some investments can return to this table three or four times for approval before they’re ultimately killed.
一些投资在最后被否决之前，可能会回到这个等待批准的谈判桌上三四次。
Blackstone is an asset manager, a type of private financial firm that invests the wealth of pension funds and insurance companies.
黑石集团是一家资产管理公司，也是一家私人金融公司，投资养老基金和保险公司。
It is not to be confused with BlackRock, an asset management firm founded by Larry Fink, who worked for Blackstone in the 1980s and set up its bond-investment business.
不要将其与黑岩集团搞混，黑岩集团是一家由拉里·芬克创立的资产管理公司。芬克曾于上世纪80年代为黑石工作，并创立了债券投资业务。
