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。
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。
Do you know how to compute the start-up costs for your business?
你能计算出创业所需的经费吗？
"We don't want to go on and on paying for the set-up costs," she said.
她表示：“我们不想继续下去，为建设成本付出代价。”
The start-up costs for new OFCs are also much higher than they used to be.
新建离岸金融中心的启动资金也比以前高的多。
Commodity prices have been rising recently, pushing up costs for factories.
商品价格最近一直在上升，这也推高了工厂的生产成本。
Microcredit clearly allowed more people to overcome the barrier posed by start-up costs.
很明显，小额贷款使更多的人克服障碍，获得启动成本。
Rising food prices have pushed up costs—grain is an important component of the brewing process.
不断上涨的食品价格增加了成本—小麦是酿酒流程中的一个重要原料。
Rises in the price of natural gas and electricity have also pushed up costs for tortilla manufacturers.
天然气与电价格的上涨也推动着玉米饼加工成本的上扬。
Ageing will clearly push up costs in time (see our special report in this issue), but it is not the main culprit yet.
老龄化推动成本上升显然是迟早的事(详见我们就此专题的特别报道)，但是它也还不是最重要的原因。
Most networks deployed between 2004 and 2006 used between 20% and 100% more nodes than expected, which pushed up costs.
2004至2006年间启用的大多数网络使用的节点都超出预计两成至一倍，这也提升了成本。
Talk to other business owners about how they figured out start-up costs and ask specifically about expenses they forgot.
试着与其他企业主探讨他们是如何计算创业成本的，具体询问他们往往会忽略的费用项目。
The $20 billion escrow account should cover most clean-up costs as well as the potential economic damages BP might have to pay.
200亿美元的条件交付账户应该能覆盖大多数清理花费，以及英国石油公司也许须赔偿的潜在的经济损害。
It is not at all clear that it costs half as much to create a game of half the size, since these start-up costs are so significant.
人们完全不清楚，开发一半大小的游戏的费用是否仅会便宜一半，因为这些初始成本非常高昂。
That suggests a total for clean-up costs and damages of $20 billion and fines of up to $17 billion (again, assuming no tax relief).
提议的清洁和损害花费总数达200亿美元，以及170亿美元的罚金（还是假设不减轻税率）。
The set-up costs would not be huge; the bulk of them would be capital, which could be returned if the uptake was lower than expected.
建立此类银行的成本不是很大；其中大部分作为资本，在收益低于预期时可以被收回。
The energy concentration in nuclear power plants is just one reason why nuclear remains so attractive, despite the high start up costs.
核电站高度集中的能量是核电尽管造价不菲，却仍然如此富有吸引力的原因之一。
The risk of being sued pushes up costs, obliging doctors to practise “defensive medicine” in the shape of needless tests and procedures.
因为面临被指控提价的风险，医生被迫在可有可无的检查和治疗过程中使用“预防性药物”。
BP's bill so far has been more than $3.1bn - and it has agreed to set up a $20bn fund to deal with compensation claims and clean-up costs.
目前，英国石油公司的花费已经超过三十一亿元，并且同意建立一项超过两百亿元的赔偿基金，以处理索赔和清理费用。
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这些诉讼风险增加了开始，迫使医生们在进行无必要的检测时进行[font=宋体]“防御式医疗”。
Fried and Hansson make an obvious point that's nevertheless worth emphasizing: the Internet has dramatically reduced start-up costs for new firms.
弗里德和汉森还提出一个值得重视的观点：互联网极大地削减了开办新公司的成本。
But Thai manufacturers have already warned that the plan to double the minimum wage could raise inflation, driving up costs for both domestic consumers and exporters.
但是，泰国工业界已经警告，最低工资加倍的计划，可能提高通货膨胀，增加消费者和出口业者的负担。
It empowers regulators to dismantle any failing financial firm, not just Banks, and pushes more of the clean-up costs onto surviving competitors, rather than the taxpayer.
给监管者分拆任何失败的金融机构的权利，不只是银行，并且把清算的成本更多地算在存活下来的竞争者而不是纳税人身上。
These specialists and consultants are most likely to be enthusiastic adopters of Global Cooling 3.0 only if their ramp-up costs (especially in training and deployment) are minimized.
只要这些专家和高级顾问的总成本(尤其是培训和开发成本)能够降到最低，他们很可能成为GlobalCooling 3.0的忠实用户。
For the past decade, its production has been stuck at around 1.6m tonnes (although it reached 1.8m tonnes last year), while more expensive inputs and overstaffing have pushed up costs.
过去十年间，产量一直徘徊在160万吨左右(尽管去年达到180万吨)，同时，更加昂贵的投入，臃肿的人员配置导致成本增加。
For the past decade, its production has been stuck at around 1.6m tonnes (although it reached 1.8m tonnes last year), while more expensive inputs and overstaffing have pushed up costs.
过去十年间，产量一直徘徊在160万吨左右(尽管去年达到180万吨)，同时，更加昂贵的投入，臃肿的人员配置导致成本增加。
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