Correspondingly, cost reductions can be achieved only through decreases (lowering the amount), avoidance (not incurring costs), or delay (incurring costs later).

相应地，成本降低只能通过减少(降低总数)、避免(不付出成本)或延迟(晚一点付出成本)来达到。

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When demand increases in advance of an increase in supply, failure to raise price results in buyers\' incurring cost in the form of delay rather than in the form of a higher price.

当需求的上升超过供求的上升的时候，提价的失败导致消费者以延迟的形式而不是高价格的形式遭受损失。

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The goal is to avoid incurring the computative cost of running the query every time the backing bean accessor is consulted.

其目的是避免每次咨询支持 bean 的访问函数时 带来运行查询的计算成本。

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Most corporate IT managers (both in the U.S. and throughout the world) that I work with have little to no knowledge or understanding how to keep their employees connected, while at the same time incurring little to no cost in doing so.

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Namely, beyond foregoing the obvious benefits that come from value-added processing such as refining (gasoline sells a lot more per gallon than the cost of a gallon of crude oil), we are incurring secondary costs that impact, in part, the very environment that radical environmentalists are trying to protect.

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