到了80年代的顶峰时期(唱片销售模式)，巡回演出已经被唱片业视为一个总是亏损的唱片推广工具。

By its peak, in the 1980s, touring had come to be seen by the music industry as a loss-making promotional tool to shift albums.

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戴姆勒董事长蔡澈迫切地想找到一种途径，以求缩减公司内总是亏损的小型汽车的开发成本，他之前就已与许多厂商举行过冗长却毫无进展的谈判，其中包括大众、宝马和菲亚特。

Daimler's Dieter Zetsche, anxious to find a way to cut the cost of developing the firm's lossmaking small cars, had held lengthy but fruitless discussions with, among others, Volkswagen, BMW and Fiat.

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但是现实如此，在一个统一货币区，通常盈余的国家总是被拿来与经常亏损的国家做对比的。

But it is true that, within a single-currency zone, habitual surplus countries tend to be matched by habitual deficit ones.

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