Schaeffler, a family-owned firm that makes bearings, was almost felled by the loans it took on to take over Continental, a car-parts company three times its size.

从事轴承生产的家族企业，舍弗勒公司，在收购了规模相当于自己三倍的汽车零件大陆公司之后，几乎被巨额贷款击倒。

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The diffuse Pacific islands make up some 1,400 specks of land scattered across an expanse of ocean more than twice the size of the continental United States.

这些分散在太平洋上的群岛由大约1，400座小岛组成，它们在海洋上所占的面积超过美国大陆面积的两倍。

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The present research indicates the validity of grain size trend analysis for large scale areas of continental shelves.

本项研究还表明“粒度趋势分析”方法在大范围的陆架区域具有较好的适用性。

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There's lot of extra space in the building now, but if Hamm really does manage to triple the size of Continental in five years, it would be about the size that Devon is now.

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Schaeffler, a family-owned firm that makes bearings, was almost felled by the loans it took on to take over Continental, a car-parts company three times its size.

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