Few firms have the crushing legacy costs of GM or Chrysler, and few carry such unbearable debts.

没有公司会负担像通用和克莱斯勒那样让人窒息的遗产，也没有公司会负担如此沉重的债务。

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The more Detroit's Big Three—GM, Ford and Chrysler—have done to reduce capacity and improve productivity, the more heavily such legacy costs have hung around their necks.

底特律的三大巨头——通用、福特、克莱斯勒——它们越是减少生产量、提高生产率，这种成本上的后滞就越是让它们喘不过气。

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Categorize all the legacy application in terms of the business returns they provide and maintenance costs the organization would have to incur to sustain it.

按照其提供的业务回报和组织为了继续使用其而产生的维护成本对所有遗留应用程序进行分类。

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There is no prospect of the federal government riding to the rescue of Detroit by taking over its legacy costs.

ECONOMIST: Detroit's finest are in dire straits

But lower production in North America means that fixed legacy costs have to be spread more thickly across shrunken revenues.

ECONOMIST: Detroit's finest are in dire straits

Those legacy costs and the GM dole, called the Jobs Bank for laid-off GM workers, drain billions from the company.

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