A third law limited the power of major companies to gain control of local electric utility companies.

VOA: special.2011.04.07

Bentham tells us happiness, or more precisely, utility maximizing utility as a principle not only for individuals but also for communities and for legislators.

边沁说，应最大化幸福，或更精确来说，最大化功利,功利最大化原则，不只针对个人,也适用于共同体及立法者。

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And what it involves is placing a value, usually a dollar value, to stand for utility on the costs and the benefits of various proposals.

其做法包括，作出估价，通常是估计出金额，来代表功利,即分别列出成本，和各项收益的金额。

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And not only that, the utility must agree to a long-term contract that covers power generation costs, plus a decent profit.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

If you will buy stock in an electrical utility which has a guaranteed revenue stream, because no matter how bad the economy gets, a lot of people still use electricity, you don't expect it to fluctuate a lot.

如果你在有着,保障性年收入的电气供应股票投资，因为不管经济变得怎么查，人们还得用电，它不会降多少。

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Authorities arrested a Pakistan-born U.S.citizen, Faisal Shahzad, two days after an explosive device inside a sports utility vehicle failed to detonate in Times Square on May 1.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

What we have now is a pretty good utility.

我们现有的优势是功能实用。

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According to Mexican authorities the second victim was also in a white sport utility vehicle and since the gunmen were not sure which one was Redelf's car, they decided to kill the occupants of both vehicles.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

But it's not a complete theory until we specify the utility function.

但我们还未详细分析效应函数,这还不是完整的理论

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So just to reinforce this, I could run gcc math2.c but I'm getting a little tired of this a.out convention and recall that there's this utility called "make" that right now doesn't really improve much, other than give it a better name.

所以我强调这点，我可以运行“gcc，math2，c“,但是我不是很喜欢a，out这个默认的名字,想取消它，那么这里有个叫做“make“的命令“,这个命令现在没有很大的改进，只是把用来更改名字用的。

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Justice is a name, for certain moral requirements, which, regarded collectively, stand higher in the scale of social utility and are, therefore, of more paramount obligation than any others."

公正，对于一定的道德要求而言，从整体看来，在社会总功利的范畴内，更高等,因此也高于其它任何义务“

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Well, I think that if the great majority of people try to derive maximum utility out of a service, like using cell phones and the convenience that cell phones provide, that sacrifice is necessary for satisfaction to occur.

我觉得如果绝大多数人想要,从某项服务中获得最大功利，比如使用手机，享受手机所带来的便利，那么为了满足需求，这种牺牲就是必要的。

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It's important--that's one reason why we want policies that encourage equality of incomes-- not necessarily equality, but reasonable equality-- because the people with very low wealth have a very high marginal utility of income and people with very high wealth have very little.

这非常重要,我们需要通过政策,来引导收入公平的一个原因就是这个,不是绝对的平等,是相对的平等,因为那些低收入的人群,对收出的边际效应相当的高,而高收入人群的则小得多

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