You may invest thousands of dollars over the years in a library that your friends can't access and your heirs can't sell to second-hand dealers.

您这些年就像在一个图书馆里投入了上万美元，但您的朋友无权阅读，而且您的孩子也不能把书卖给二手书的经销商。

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If we don't [invest] we will see food crises like the one in 2007 repeated over and again.

如果我们不投入资本的话，那么像2007年那样的粮食危机还会不断上演。

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With so much growth over the past two years, the company has been forced to invest heavily in infrastructure.

在过去的两年中经历了这么大的增长，该公司不得不在基础设施上投入大量资金。

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On Tuesday, President Obama announced a plan to invest twelve billion dollars in community colleges over the next ten years.

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Our company this year will invest over $9 billion in RD.

我们公司今年会在DOS上投资90亿美元。

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"The high-pitched partisan debate over whether to invest in missile defense is no longer with us."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Having said that, there is also no need to go overboard and over invest in trying to collect all the data possible (Big Data).

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They tend notably to over-invest in shares of the firm where they work.

ECONOMIST: Money managers

Over-exuberant expectations about profits, allied with an artificially cheap cost of capital thanks to a stockmarket bubble, encouraged firms to over-invest.

ECONOMIST: American productivity