I know that you do a very big international business,
我知道贵公司在国际贸易方面的生意做得很大,
She feared the arrival of the bill-collector.
她害怕收帐人来。
Apparently what happened was that water collected on these tar pits, and the bigger animals like the elephants ventured out on to the apparently firm surface to drink, and were promptly bogged in the tar.