Prudential's flotation will be the third largest this year, behind Kraft Foods and Agere Systems.

保诚公司的股票发行量今年将排名第3，仅次于卡夫食品和杰尔系统。

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The flotation samples from the excavations allowed botanists to study shifts in plant-collecting habits as if they were looking through a telescope at a changing landscape.

从挖掘物中获取的浮选样本让植物学家能够研究植物采集习性的转变，就好像是用望远镜观察不断变化的景致。

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Fully agitate and aerify the pulp before flotation.

浮选前充分搅拌、充气。

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The bathyscaphe is over 16 meters long, and its gasoline-filled flotation chamber's deck,rails, and conning tower make it look a bit like a submarine.

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Essentially Citigroup is contesting a decision made by Mr Bondi to exclude it from the list of Parmalat's creditors, a step that would, if upheld, keep the bank out of a future debt-for-equity swap prior to Parmalat's re-flotation on the stockmarket.

ECONOMIST: Parmalat

For investment bankers, at least, a sign that the good times are truly back would be the long-awaited flotation of Google, an enormously popular internet search engine.

ECONOMIST: IPOs are making a comeback

Wit, a 16-month-old veteran, was formed by Andrew Klein, who in 1995 completed the first-ever Internet flotation, of a brewery.

ECONOMIST: Initial public offerings