As Bill Shope, an equity analyst at JPMorgan, puts it, the music store is a "loss leader" that serves only to boost sales of the iPod. It is as if record stores existed only to sell record players.

正如摩根大通的一位权益分析师Bill Shope认为的，音乐商店仅仅是为促进iPod销售的廉价商品，仿佛唱片店的存在就是为了销售唱片播放机。

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For example, you might use a Polling activity to search for new sales order records in your system and then automatically send a copy of the data to your accounting application to generate a bill.

例如，您可能使用Polling活动在系统中搜索新的销售订单记录，然后自动向会计应用程序发送数据副本以生成帐单。

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Earlier this month it was revealed that the organisers faced an unknown-but large-bill for VAT (a sales tax), something that had oddly been left out of the original budget.

本月的早些时候，奥运会的组织者才发现了未知但却数额巨大的一笔费用——VAT增值税(一种有关销售的税种)，居然没有列在原先的预算之中，真是有点令人匪夷所思。

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With the end of the programme the bill will come due, in terms of reduced sales.

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The bill would also bar sales of any surveillance-applicable hardware or software to countries that restrict Internet use.

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Connecticut would require universal criminal background checks for the sale of all guns as soon as the bill passes, closing a loophole in private sales of rifles and shotguns.

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