In Australia fewer people are buying instant coffee because of cheap coffee percolators that they can use to make real coffee at home.
在澳大利亚,购买速溶咖啡的人越来越少,因为他们可以用便宜的咖啡渗滤壶在家里制作真正的咖啡。
We keep being told that because of cheap, ubiquitous communication technology, distance is dead.
人们一直告诉我们,由于廉价且无处不在的信息技术,距离已经死亡。
"The ratio of sand and concrete isn't right," he said. "It fell down because of cheap materials."
“沙子和水泥的比例不对。是劣质的材料造成了大楼的倒塌。”他说。
The interests of consumers are affected, and many enterprises keep losing money because of cheap fake commodities.
消费者的利益受到影响,许多企业继续亏损,因为廉价的假冒伪劣商品。
Because of cheap electricity supply in bulk, it is possible that electrometallurgy is made into mass industrial production.
因为有了廉价电能的大量供应,电冶金才得以成为大规模的工业生产。
It's not cheap, but it made her happy, because she had dreamed of having one for a long time.
它并不便宜,但它让她很开心,因为她一直梦想着拥有一个。
In these circles, a cheap currency is often seen as the least disreputable form of industrial policy, because it benefits exporters in general, without favouring any particular industry or firm.
在这些圈子,廉价的货币经常被看成是名声最差的工业政策的形式,因为它总体上对出口商有利,却不有利于个别的行业或公司。
They must persuade big companies that they can make money out of cheap homes, because only they can achieve the economies of scale needed to hit the target price.
思考者必须使大公司相信自己能从廉价房屋中赚钱,因为只有他们才能产生必须的经济规模以便达到目标价格。
Its luxury-shoe sector is declining, not because of the cheap Asian footwear that is wiping out many European mass-market producers but because of a loss of design flair.
如法国奢侈鞋类在市场中的地位正在减弱,这并非是因为廉价的亚洲鞋业横扫了欧洲大众鞋类生产商,而是其本身设计灵感的缺失。
Some economists may be cheap, at least by the standards of other people, because of their training or a fascination with money and choices that drives them to the field.
有些经济学家也许喜欢捡便宜,或者至少按其他人的标准看来是这样,这是因为他们受过专业训练,或者正是因为对金钱和选择的着迷,使得他们进入这个领域。
Mr Nohl told BBC News, "we used the cheap Motorola telephones because a description of their firmware leaked to the Internet." This allowed hackers to adapt it to reveal all data broadcast.
诺尔先生对英国广播公司说“我们使用了廉价的摩托罗拉手机因为他们的软件已经泄漏到了互联网上”这就使得黑客可以用它获得传播的所有信息。
Reducing emissions has become a fiercely-contested issue because ofthe cost of easing use of oil, gas and coal, the cheap and abundantfossil fuels that meet most of the world's energy needs.
由于减少使用石油、天然气和煤这些廉价丰富的化石燃料,以满足世界能源需求的成本可观,减排已成了激烈争议的问题。
They could, for instance, receive health insurance as part of their payment—which would be cheap because properly screened donors appear to live longer than the average Joe with two kidneys.
比如,他们可以获得健康保险作为报酬的一部分——这笔费用可能要便宜一点,因为术后能获得严格体检的捐赠人们似乎要比那些拥有两只肾的人还要寿命更长一些。
And because Internet startups have become so cheap to run, the threshold of profitability can be trivially low.
因为互联网初创公司的启动成本已经非常低了,盈利点可以很容易突破。
On the other are people who believe that Americans are getting fatter because of powerful environmental factors like cheap corn, fast food, and unscrupulous advertising.
另一派的人们相信,美国人变胖英归咎于强大的环境因素,像便宜的玉米、快餐食品和肆无忌惮的广告。
It is possible to live a comfortable rich-world sort of life in Egypt, and many people do; in some ways it is easier than in well-off countries because maids and cooks and drivers are cheap.
在埃及要过富人过的舒适生活当然是可能的,许多人也就是这么生活的。从某些方面来说,因为仆人,厨子和司机的工资都很低,所以比起富裕国家,这里的生活的要更加的方便些。
Because in a world of cheap data storage, if we're not prompted to delete, we won't.
因为,在一个数据存储越来越廉价的世界,如果我们不被提示去删除东西,我们是不会主动去删除的。
The level of spreads is particularly significant because private-equity groups have been arbitraging between the debt and equity markets, using cheap debt to buy companies.
息差的水平特别显著是因为私人股份集团已经在债务工具市场和股票市场之间进行套利,通过使用债务工具借入资金去收购公司.
It was during the trough after the Internet Bubble that it became trivially cheap to start a startup, but few realized it because startups were so out of fashion.
正是在互联网泡沫破灭之后的低谷期内,初创公司的启动成本开始变得非常低,但是因为当时初创公司已经不那么受追捧了,所以很少有人发现这种变化。
Intellectuals took over the area of London known as Bloomsbury in part because it was undesirable and cheap.
知识分子接管了伦敦地区,也就是现在Bloomsbury的部分地区,因为它没人喜欢而且便宜。
This is because, even were it not cheap and plentiful, gas would be attractive simply on the grounds of cleanliness.
这是因为即使天然气还不够廉价和丰富,它也会仅由于“清洁”的特点而具备强大吸引力。
Modern bulbs, the descendants of that demonstration, are cheap (around 50 cents) but inefficient, because only about 5% of the energy they use is turned into light and the rest is wasted as heat.
现代灯泡-那个实例的后代-很便宜(约50美分)但却效率极低,这是因为只有5%的能量转换成了光,其他都被变成热量浪费了。
When I heard the phrase "buy cheap, buy twice," I assumed it meant buying cheap was good, because you could have two pairs of shoes instead of one: quite wrong.
当我听到“便宜买,买两倍”这句格言的时候,我相信它意思是说买便宜货是好事,这一来你就可以一气儿买两双鞋子了:错了。
Because the logic of cheap money makes it really easy to leave common sense at the spreadsheet door.
松动资金的逻辑就使得它轻而易举地把常识丢在了试算表的大门外。
Because the logic of cheap money makes it really easy to leave common sense at the spreadsheet door.
松动资金的逻辑就使得它轻而易举地把常识丢在了试算表的大门外。
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