Rio's offer for Riversdale is its first attempt at a sizeable acquisition since a disastrous purchase of Alcan in 2007.

自从2007年收购加拿大铝业公司遭到惨重损失后，这是力拓首次尝试如此大的收购。

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In the decade Sir Fred Goodwin spent at the top of the Royal bank of Scotland, RBS went on an acquisition spree culminating in the disastrous purchase of ABN AMRO, a Dutch bank.

弗雷德·古德温爵士担任苏格兰皇家银行(RBS)最高职位的十年间，苏格兰皇家银行进行了疯狂的并购，以灾难性地收购荷兰银行(abn AMRO)而告终。

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The deal would eclipse Microsoft's largest acquisition—the August, 2007, purchase of online ad firm aQuantive—by sevenfold.

这笔交易将超出微软最大的收购记录（2007年8月收购网上广告公司aQuantive）近7倍。

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The acquisition follows Paypal's purchase of another smartphone-based payment service, Zong, last year.

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Sunil Garg, a banking analyst at JPMorgan in Hong Kong, said in a note that HSBC would probably be able to fund the acquisition internally, with the purchase representing 3.5% of its asset base, or an 80-basis-point impact on its Tier 1 capital ratio.

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