Foreign companies have been slow to bring new drugs into Japan, because doing so requires expensive and cumbersome trials often duplicating those already carried out in other countries.

外国公司新药进入日本市场一直都很延后，因为日方要求的昂贵而繁琐的试验通常相当于在其它进入国家的双倍时间。

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You: I already did. This is new model this year. So it is expensive.

你说：我已经砍价了。 这是今年新出的样式，所以很贵。

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But if they scratch together the money to do so, it will be impossible to afford earthquake insurance, which is already prohibitively expensive.

但是，如果他们凑集钱财来这样做的话，则无法承担地震保险，那也是极其昂贵的。

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Cuban cigars are already expensive, and getting more so.

ECONOMIST: Cuban cigars

Foreign companies have been slow to bring new drugs into Japan, because doing so requires expensive and cumbersome trials often duplicating those already carried out in other countries.

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This month's test suggests what many observers have long suspected: that most of those who wanted to take their money out have already done so illegally, whether by stuffing it into suitcases or by buying expensive jewellery at home and then selling it abroad.

ECONOMIST: South Africa