landman

基本解释

For Landman, the relative calm in the aftermath of the Malema affair reflects the reality of the new South Africa.
對蘭德曼而言，馬萊馬事件後的相對平靜反映出了新南非的真實情況。
"There was a time," Landman muses, "when an ambulance appeared before Parliament and the rand collapsed because people thought something had happened to Mr. Mandela.
蘭德曼重溫道：“曾經有一段時間，人們以爲曼德拉先生出事了，救護車出現在國會麪前，蘭特（南非貨幣）也因此崩潰。”
Only relatively pristine material has the goods Landman is after, so his team uses a scanning electron microscope (below), which utilizes a beam of electrons to image surfaces, to find the best nacre.
衹有相對原始狀態的材料才擁有蘭德曼所需要的研究對象，因此他的研究小組必須使用利用電子束表麪成像的掃描電子顯微鏡（下圖）去尋找最好的珍珠層。

The drilling companies typically acquire leases with landholders who have access to oil and mineral rights below their land by using a landman (either an employee of the company or an independent agent), who offers a fixed price per acre for the right to drill, plus a royalty percentage of the value of the produced hydrocarbons.
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