At the same time, companies have discovered the limits of frugality: cutting prices and building big customer bases may sometimes lose them money, rather than making it.

同时，公司发现了节俭带来的限制：降价和建立大规模客户群有时会带来损失而不是赚钱。

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LAST summer, on the Atlantic coast of France, Charlemagne was introduced to a fine beach game: building big sand-walls near the shoreline in the face of a rising tide.

去年夏天，法国大西洋沿岸，一种有趣的沙滩游戏加入了查理曼大帝元素：涨潮时在海岸线上建一堵沙墙。

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There are far easier pickings out there rather than landing on a planet filled with a civilization that takes great pride in building big weapons that could hinder attempts at mining the planet.

在那儿获取原料远比着陆在一个充满文明、对建造的能阻碍外星人采矿的大型武器引以为豪的星球上要容易得多。

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He says big coffee sellers like Starbucks help his business by building a base of customers who want something better.

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Satan and the fallen angels are entering the magnificent structureof Pandemonium, and at one instant all of the angels shrink in order to fit in to the building, however big it is.

撒旦和堕落天使们正在进入,混战地狱绝妙的建筑中去，突然，所有的天使们都缩小了身形,以来进入那栋建筑中。

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It's a big building with a lot of arts inside.

这栋建筑很大，里面有很多艺术品。

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To help sell more, Nissan is building big new facilities in Smyrna, Tennessee, and Canton, Mississippi.

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There was a danger, he said, in building big estates to house large concentrations of disadvantaged people together.

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While franchises built around Tiger Woods and John Madden are steady earners, the economics of building big budget games are increasingly daunting.

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