It is true that when there are start-up costs, such as credit checks, involved in serving a new customer, the costs exceed those of serving a repeat customer.

的确，当服务新客户需要启动成本时，比如信用检查，其成本要高于服务老客户的成本。

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Poker financed a sizeable chunk of Microsoft's start-up costs.

微软的启动资金中有很大一部分也是来自扑克。

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Lawyers keep their Numbers carefully pruned, pushing up costs.

律师数量一直在减少的同时其开支却在增加。

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The money will pay for food and clothing,transportation, clean-up efforts,relocation costs and medicine.

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Notice that these transport costs go up in the distance you have to travel and they go up pretty fast.

注意这些交通成本,随着距离而增长并且增长得很快

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And the truth is that yes, this costs energy, we're going up to a higher energy state.

事实上，它需要消耗能量，我们到了一个更高的能量状态。

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The BBC licence fee will finance some start-up costs, but advertising is likely to fund the services.

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Further, it empowers government to pick and subsidize winners, restrict choices, and intentionally drive up costs.

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It has work to do in South America, too, where high inflation is driving up costs.

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