压制来自霍多尔科夫斯基的潜在威胁就意味着通过把梅纳特普银行集团从尤克斯集团未来的现金流转中分离出来，以使他丧失成就野心的能力。
Neutralizing the perceived threat from Khodorkovsky meant depriving him of the means to achieve his ambitions by separating his Menatep Group from Yukos’s future cash flows.