Instead of designing a completely new product to fit a certain price range, large scale manufacturing dictates that it is often cheaper to simply "cripple" an existing high-end product.

与其设计一个全新的产品去适应某一价格区间，大多数制造商会决定使用一个成本更低的方式，简单的“削减”一下现有高端产品的功能。

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U.S. companies have shifted toward high-end manufacturing as the production of low-value goods has moved overseas.

美国公司已经转向高端产品制造，而那些低价值的产品制造则转到了国外。

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We need to vigorously develop new energy sources, new materials, energy conservation, environmental protection, biomedicine, information networks, and high-end manufacturing industries.

要大力发展新能源、新材料、节能环保、生物医药、信息网络和高端制造产业。

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He welcomed its commitments to reduce barriers to foreign investment in services, high-tech goods, energy saving products and high-end manufacturing.

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Those are the kinds of things that are going to make sure that we have the high-end manufacturing here in our country.

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Now that might be at the high end of manufacturing, leather is perhaps not the most mechanized industry, but even at 50% or 40%, a manufacturer has an enormous incentive to cut labor costs.

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