The snag is that unprofitable companies, which should have been squeezed out by competition, have remained alive because it is so hard to fire workers.
问题在于，那些本应被竞争挤出市场的无利可图的公司，却因为裁员如此之难而存活了下来。
Almost every product line is unprofitable.
几乎每一个产品线都是亏损的。
The parable of the unprofitable servant, the parable of the talents.
无益的仆人的寓言，才能的寓言。
Mr Tata sold a number of unprofitable businesses and kicked the rest into shape.
Tata先生出售了很多不盈利的生意，将剩下的生意办的有形有色。
Kelly said that Southwest was "trimming flights that are unpopular and unprofitable."
Kelly指出，西南航空“正在暂停那些不受欢迎和不盈利的航班”。
Thus, the more new customers they signed up the more unprofitable the bank became!
因此，他们吸收的新客户越多，银行就变得越不盈利！
Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me?
他从前与你没有益处，但如今与你我都有益处。
The businessman cannot close down his factory or shop because he finds it unprofitable.
企业家不能因为没有利润就关闭或者出售企业。
Net sales have declined for the past four years and the camera division is unprofitable.
可过去四年里净销售额一路下滑，相机部门也未能赢利。
After all, don’t shareholders prefer to own aprofitable company rather than an unprofitable one?
毕竟，股东希望拥有一家能够盈利的公司，而不是一家亏损的公司吗？
Salesmen, fixated on winning contracts at any cost, forgot how to step away from unprofitable deals.
销售员们只想着不计任何代价来赢得合同，忘了如何避免不赚钱的买卖。
Last year Molex decidedto close its French plant near Toulouse,which had been unprofitable for years.
去年莫仕决定关闭其在图卢兹附近的多年不盈利的法国制造厂。
Were the yen ever to rise sharply (making the trade unprofitable), there could be hell to pay in the markets.
一旦日元大幅升值(令到这些套息盘无利可图)会在市场上造成可怕的后果。
Although daily deals can work for a few categories, many business owners will find that deals are unprofitable.
虽然每日的交易适用于一些情形，很多生意人会发现交易会出现没有利润的情况。
But Mr Goyder downplayed the risk of Coles cutting margins to unprofitable levels in order to win market share.
但是格拉德先生并没有将高斯利润降低到无利可图以赢得市场份额所暗含的风险放在心上。
She recalls how she advised a group of very poor women running a small, unprofitable bakery in Rwanda some years ago.
她回想起几年前她在卢旺达指导一群经营着一家毫不赚钱的小面包店的非常贫困的妇女。
Gone are the days of freewheeling growth built on unprofitable expansion designed to flood markets and capture market share.
以低价倾销和争夺市场份额为目的的无利可图的扩张时代已经过去了。
But Mr Mittal said the extra cost of servicing rural customers, and their low usage levels, had made things unprofitable.
但是米塔尔先生说，公司为给农村用户提供服务花了许多额外费用，而这些用户的手机使用率却很低，这两点都已令这盘生意无利可图。
Early last year, small makers of memory chips tumbled into the red and, by year end, industry leader Samsung was also unprofitable.
去年年初，小型存储芯片制造商出现亏损，到年底的时候，业界领先者三星电子也无利可图。
That makes processing heavy oil unprofitable for some refineries, since the gains from diesel are outweighed by losses on fuel oil.
柴油所带来的利润不足以冲抵燃油的损失，造成一些重油炼油厂无利可图。
The trouble with the profit system has always been that is was highly unprofitable to most people. (E.B.White, American writer)
利润制度的最大弊端始终是绝大多数的人是绝对无利可图的。
Carmakers flooded the market with unprofitable cars in the good times in an effort to stave off the closure of uneconomic factories.
汽车制造商在好的时代为了将没有效率的竞争者赶出市场，生产了大量的毫无利润可言的汽车。
Two unprofitable smaller firms, Jaguar and Saab, were swallowed by Ford and GM respectively only to cost billions in further losses.
福特和通用分别收购了盈利无方的小厂商捷豹和萨博，而结果只是为两公司分别增加了数十亿美元的亏损。
Anyone can catch as many fish as they like, so they fish right up to the point where fishing becomes unprofitable-for everybody.
每个人能抓到他们所需要的鱼的数量，但他们捕鱼到这种程度——捕鱼对每个人不利。
In the end, the team's winning bid leaves them with a very risky project, which is likely to fail or at the least be unprofitable.
最后，团队获得竞标会留给他们一个有风险的项目，很可能失败或至少没有利益。
An increase in the relative price of oil raises the costs of energy-intensive production, making some plant and machinery unprofitable.
石油相对价格的上涨会提高能源密集型产品的成本，这使得一些工厂和机械行业无利可图。
In their case, they were signing up the correct number of new customers per their corporate goals, but these customers were unprofitable.
在本例中，他们按照其公司目标吸收合适数目的新客户，但这些客户都没有带来利润。
In their case, they were signing up the correct number of new customers per their corporate goals, but these customers were unprofitable.
在本例中，他们按照其公司目标吸收合适数目的新客户，但这些客户都没有带来利润。
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