Neither the miner nor the logger can be dispensed with, any more than can the chemist at the factory or the worker in the oil field -- paraffin being a by-product of petroleum.
伐木工人和矿工都不能省略，至多却不比工厂里的化学家和油田里的工人更重要——石蜡是石油的副产品。
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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.