Natural-resource companies, whose importance grows as competition for resources intensifies, need to be big—hence the mining industry’s consolidation.

由于自然[color=#FF0000]资源领域的竞争日趋白热化，因此只有大公司才能玩得起，也难怪采矿业开始出现合并风潮。

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The evaluating indicator system of rural residential land consolidation potentiality was built respectively from natural potentiality and realistic potentiality.

文章在分析农村居民点整理潜力内涵及其来源的基础上，将其分为自然和现实转化两类潜力。

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However, the properties of dredged mud are very complicated and its natural sedimentation and consolidation process takes a long time.

由于吹填淤泥性质十分复杂，并且需要很长时间的自然沉积固结，待表面形成硬壳后方可加固处理。

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Over the course of the Nineteenth Century, that industry experienced a natural consolidation with better transportation, bigger cities, bigger commerce, it was only natural that distilling would commercialize.

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Eli Noam, the director of Columbia University's Institute for Tele-Information, calls the consolidation a natural evolution to achieve scale and diversify risk.

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Regulation is a natural barrier to market consolidation across borders, but a second force bears on securities markets in exactly the opposite way: technology.

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