Their loss was partly due to a vicious price war between manufacturers that has cut margins to the bone.

他们的亏损部分是因为制造商之间把利润空间削减到了极点的一场恶性价格战。

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Most men don't bone-up to fist fight, to go to war or to wrestle. It wouldn't be biologically useful.

大多数男人并不能善于拳脚、战场或摔跤，因为这在生理上是无用的，流血是徒劳的。

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A vicious price war between manufacturers has cut margins to the bone.

制造商之间的恶性价格战已将利润削减到了最低。

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President Truman in the early postwar years had chopped defense spending to the bone, so we fought the first two Korean years living off quartermaster stores leftovers from World War II.

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