In South Africa, Jani was a big fish in a small pond.

在南非，亚尼是当地的大人物。

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Fish swim in the pond.

鱼在池塘里游泳。

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In the middle was a small round pond containing gold-fish and surrounded by a cockle-shell border.

中间是一个小圆池，池里有金鱼，四周有扇贝壳边。

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And so Gina Rinehart, for all her personal wealth, is not a particularly big fish in the pond of Australian mining.

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For Qian Hu, the key lies in keeping the fish healthy in the first place: "A disease that causes no problem in the fish pond can bloom into the open during travel and cause most or all of the fish to arrive dead, " says Yap.

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But given the volumes now, Ford can no longer be treated as a small fish in a big pond.

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