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Another American company moving into China is Wal-Mart. The American store chain is bidding one billion dollars to buy one hundred "hypermarkets" (a combination¹ of supermarket and department store) in China from Trust-Mart, a Taiwanese company. Although Wal-Mart recently pulled out of Germany and South Korea, they hope to become the number one hypermarket chain in China, ahead of the French company Carrefour, which also made a bid for Trust-Mart. The news back home was not as good for Wal-Mart. 200 employees in a Florida store staged a walk-out to protest² new policies, and the store chain was embarrassed by the disclosure that they were secretly paying the authors of the weblog "Wal-Marting Across America" to write nice things about them.

1 combination   

n.组合，合并，联合；

参考例句：

• He carried on the business in combination with his friends.他与朋友们合伙做生意。
• The materials can be used singly or in combination.这些材料可以单独使用也可以混合用。

2 protest   

v.反对，抗议；宣称；n.抗议；宣称

参考例句：

• I can't pass the matter by without a protest.我不能对此事视而不见，我要提出抗议。
• We translated his silence as a protest.我们把他的沉默解释为抗议。