His huge enterprise had always remained essentially a copartnership, and he had frequently expressed his abhorrence of trusts.

大企业本质上一直是合伙制， 经常表达对拉斯厌恶。

In this period before the Civil War comparatively small single owners, or frequently copartnerships, controlled practically every industrial field.

在内战之前这一， 对较小单一所有者或经常是合伙企业几乎控制了每个工业领域。