1. In this vale of time, the time often shut out the moutains of eternity. 在时间的山谷里，时间的山丘往往会遮住永恒的山脉。
2. Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton are already selling almost half of their supplies on the spot market, with Vale also ramping up spot sales. 力拓和必和必拓在现货市场销售的铁矿石已经接近其产量的一半，而淡水河谷的现货销售也逐渐增加。
3. So even if Vale had found a target for a huge, transforming deal, Brazil's government, like Norway's footballers in 1998, would have proved difficult to beat. 因此，即使淡水河谷公司发现了一个巨大的转化交易目标，巴西政府也会像1998年挪威的足球运动员一样，难以击败。
英英解释
n.
1. a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river
