必和必拓由英国和澳大利亚两家矿业公司合并而成，现在是全球最大的采矿业公司，其中铁矿石和石油的销量达到历史之最，但同时提醒下半年中国的需求将会减少。

The Anglo-Australian miner, the world’s largest, sold record amounts of iron ore and oil, but gave warning that demand from China was likely to slow in the second half of the year.

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卫星通常被认为形成于两种途径：一是由它们母星的同性云状碎片合并而成，一是被母星重力抓住的游离天体。

Moons are generally thought to form in one of two ways - either by coalescing from the same cloud of debris as their parent planet, or as wandering objects captured by the parent's gravitational pull.

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IBM成立之初名为Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. (C-T-R)，1911年由华尔街金融家查尔斯•弗林特收购的三家初级信息公司合并而成。

IBM began life as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. (C-T-R), a rag-tag amalgamation of pseudo-information companies assembled in an acquisition by Wall Street financier Charles Flint in 1911.

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