直接的竞争可能会强烈刺激它们降低价格，也许是通过接受更低的利润率或者要求供应商提供更好的交易条件。
The head-to-head competition might give them a strong incentive to lower their prices, perhaps by accepting slimmer profit margins or demanding better deals from providers.
竞争对手们已经开始获得与其核心产品相匹敌的能力，这降低了价格和利润率。
Rivals have begun to match the capability of its core products, driving prices and profit margins lower.
产品组合滑向更低的价格和更低的毛利润率。
Products mix shifting toward lower prices and lower gross margins.
令人惊奇的是，当石油和原材料等进口品的成本飞涨时，制成品的价格却保持不变，且利润率没有下降多少。
Strikingly, as the cost of imports such as oil and raw materials has soared, the price of finished goods has remained stable and profit rates have not declined much.
今年，思科在该市场的销售额增长率下降至7%，而其竞争对手却在降低价格，仅将利润率保持在40%或50%，甚至更低。
In the current year, sales growth has fallen to about 7%, and competitors are cutting prices, accepting margins of just 40 or 50%, or even less.
报告认为，在集中化程度高的行业把进口额占国内销售额的比例从零增加到25%可以通过降低消费价格将寡头垄断的利润率降低8%。
According to the report, increasing imports in concentrated industries from zero to 25 percent of domestic sales reduces oligopoly profit mark-ups by 8 percent through lower prices to consumers.
分析师们过去只预测到了电纸书终端的价格将会随着组件成本的下降以及终端所带来的电子书销售利润率的增加而逐渐下降。
Analysts had expected the prices of e-readers would gradually fall because of the natural decline in component costs and the increased profitability of e-books themselves.
从菜单上餐品价格的无情上涨来看，大型连锁店在比萨上的毛利率肯定至少达到80%，也就是400%的成本利润率。
Given the way menu prices have risen relentlessly, the major chains must enjoy gross margins of at least 80 per cent on their pizza, or a mark-up of 400 per cent over cost.
但是国外销售的利润率会提高，并且随着进口价格上扬，英国生产商会在国内市场中占有更大份额的。
But profit margins on foreign sales will improve and, with imports dearer, domestic producers will grab a bigger share of the home market.
对许多出口商来说，利润率本已经极为微薄，价格的增加可能导致其业务遭受损失。
For many exporters, profit margins are already razor thin, and raising prices could hurt business.
尽管销量有所增长，但JP摩根的CharlesGuo预计，比亚迪今年下半年的利润率还会下降，原因是其轿车价格大幅下调。
Despite the rising sales volume, Mr. Guo from J.P. Morgan expects a much lower profitability for BYD in the second half of this year due to its aggressive cuts in car prices.
今年早些时候，三星电子的管理层还预计内存芯片价格会在8、9月时出现反弹，公司利润率也会因此上升。
Earlier this year, the company's executives expected memory-chip prices to rebound around August or September, reviving profit margins.
他们也不太可能获得许可去提高利润率(作为区域垄断，他们的价格是被设定的，并且他们的利润率是被监管者保证的)。
They are also unlikely to win permission to raise rates. (As regional monopolies, their prices are set and their profit margins are guaranteed by regulators.)
需求将变得疲弱，绝大多数商品价格将会下跌，企业将因此失去定价能力，他们的利润率将仍然受到挤压。
Demand will be weak, most prices will be falling, and companies will therefore have little pricing power and their profit margins will remain squeezed.
单伟建还明确的质疑：在工资和原材料价格双双上涨的情况下，利润率如何才能增长得如此之快？
But surely Mr Shan has a point: how can profit margins increase when wages and raw material prices have been rising so rapidly?
这篇论文的一部分探讨了2011年的价格上涨将推动保证金和利润率双重上涨。
Part of the thesis there is that price increases in 2011 would help raise margins and profits.
其边利润率正在缩水，伴随的是市场份额及产品价格双双下跌。
Its profit margins have been shrinking, along with its market share and the average price of its phones.
价格战可能会把本已微薄的个人电脑利润一扫而光，而其通常的利润率在6%上下。
The price wars may wipe out already-thin PC profit margins, which typically hover at 6%.
展望未来，公司表示，较高的棉花价格将打击其利润率。
Looking ahead the firm said that higher cost of cotton would hit its profit margins.
全球炼厂利润率近几周大幅上升，这应该可以在短期内支撑强劲的原油需求，提振现货价格及价差。
Global refining margins have improved significantly in recent weeks which should support strong demand for crude and lend some strength to both spot prices and spreads in the short term.
魏传虔指出：“为了应对短缺，电脑公司将把能够得到的电池分配给价格较高的产品，以求将对收入和利润率的影响降到最低。”
"To cope with the shortage, computer companies are going to assign the capacity they can get to higher-priced products in order to minimise the impact on their revenue and margins," said Mr Wei.
经验：一般而言，当企业的价格成本利润率很高时，小幅提价不会损失很多销售量，小幅降价也不会增加很多销售量。
Lesson: in general, when a firm's price-cost margin is high, it doesn't lose many sales from raising price a little.
第三，销售利润率申报价格的具体限制。
Third, sell margin to declare the price of specific restrictions.
虽然生产柴油及其他馏分油的精炼利润率继续下滑，但完全被汽油价格和利润率的大幅提升所抵消。
While refining margins for making diesel and other distillates have continued to deteriorate this has been more than offset by a sharp improvement in gasoline prices and margins.
马克思揭示了资本获取利润所隐含的剥削问题，提出剩余价值说，假设价值转化为生产价格，通过平均利润率的形成，要解决“李嘉图矛盾”。
To deal with the "Ricardo contradiction", he raises the theory of surplus value by assuming that value is changed into production price and is formed by averaging different profit rates.
马克思揭示了资本获取利润所隐含的剥削问题，提出剩余价值说，假设价值转化为生产价格，通过平均利润率的形成，要解决“李嘉图矛盾”。
To deal with the "Ricardo contradiction", he raises the theory of surplus value by assuming that value is changed into production price and is formed by averaging different profit rates.
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