上一次这样高的价格是2008年8月才出现的。

The last time prices were this high was in August 2008.

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然而古我繁明颠覆了这样的形象：对于能源企业如何虚报成本、阻碍竞争、保持能源价格高企并最终拖垮日本，他不仅有着深刻理解，而且能够仗义执言。

But Mr Koga's brave words and deep understanding of how energy companies pad their costs, block competition, keep energy prices high and ultimately strangle Japan is an antidote to that image.

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同理，在繁荣的前提下，大宗商品的消费者将会竭尽全力地去追逐这些原材料以至他们把价格推高到非常荒唐的水准，至少在一段非常短的时间内是这样。

Similarly, in boom conditions commodity consumers will be so desperate to get their hands on raw materials that they will drive prices up to absurd levels, at least for a short time.

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All right, so if the other guy is pricing above costs, I want to set prices below his so that I steal the whole of the market and make profits on those sales.

正确,如果对手定价比成本高,我就想定价比他的价格低,这样我就可以占领整个市场,并获得销售利润

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