I asked three building firms to estimate for the repairs to the house.
我请了三家建筑公司估算修理房屋的费用。
U.S. spy agencies, through In-Q-Tel, have invested in a number of firms to help them better find that information.
美国情报机构通过In-Q-Tel已经投资了好几家公司来帮助他们更好地寻找这类情报。
The third part, now that Constellation is cancelled, is to encourage private-sector firms to compete, so as to provide transport to and from the space station.
“星座项目”既然已经被取消，第三部分就是鼓励私人企业相互竞争，来为空间站的往返提供运输服务。
The recession has prompted many firms to cut their travel budgets.
经济不景气，许多公司被迫削减差旅开支预算。
And the deals demonstrate a new urgency among firms to restructure.
并且，这些交易表明，企业重组迫在眉睫。
They are sprawling empires, with extremely diverse firms to manage.
它们已成为一些庞大的帝国，要管理的企业种类极其多样。
Investors are pushing Japanese firms to increase shareholder value.
投资者促使日本公司增加股东的价值。
The credit crunch is making it harder for new firms to find capital.
信贷紧缩使得新公司很难筹到资金。
These are not the first firms to use self-deprecating marketing.
这种自贬式营销手段并非前无古人。
Should we require financial firms to have more capital to absorb losses?
我们应该要求金融公司有更多的资本去吸收损失吗？
It provided an artificial incentive for large firms to grow even larger.
它为这些大公司提供了人为的激励，使他们变得更大。
JBIC encourages Japanese firms to form consortiums to increase their heft.
JBIC鼓励日本公司组成联盟以增加分量。
JBIC encourages Japanese firms to form consortiums to increase their heft.
日本国际协力银行鼓励日本企业组成财团以增加其分量。
"Clients shouldn't be paying for law firms to train people," is their refrain.
“客户不应当成为律师事务所培训新人的买单者”是他们最大的心声。
Traditional “production functions” allow firms to substitute quality for quantity.
传统的“生产函数”允许公司以质取代量。
It is hard for firms to know what the "right" prices are in two-sided markets.
对公司来说知道双边市场中“正确”的价格是很难的。
But this partlyreflects the choice of firms to pay out a big chunk of their earnings.
但是这也部分反应出公司选择支付大量公司收益。
So I decided to apply to these firms to see if they were where I truly should be.
因此我决定申请这些公司，看看它们是否是我真正应该去的地方。
The stimulus package allows firms to convert the tax break into upfront payments.
刺激方案允许公司把缴税额转为预付款。
But perhaps the biggest attraction is that the networks help firms to cut search costs.
但也许最大的优点是社交网络有助于公司减少搜索成本。
A new French law requires listed firms to reserve 40% of board seats for women by 2017.
法国一项新的法律要求上市公司到2017要将董事会中40%的席位留给女性。
Green groups want firms to shrink their "forest footprint" -and some are responding.
绿色环保组织要求公司缩减其“森林足迹”—有些公司正在相应。
Rising sales and increased business confidence should also lead firms to expand payrolls.
销售的增加将提高企业的信心，同时也会反映在提高工资上面。
Elsewhere activist shareholders have got firms to jettison assets or cut managers' pay.
在其他地方，激进的股东已经使得公司投弃资产或者降低管理者的报酬。
That allows firms to operate more efficiently, pick out trends and improve their forecasting.
这就使得公司能更有效地运营、发现趋势以提升预测质量。
One good reason for media firms to erect paywallsis that new media are beginning to age, too.
媒体公司建立付费墙的一个好理由是，新媒体也逐渐老去了。
Politicians complain about firms' tendency to hoard cash, and urge firms to pay workers more.
政客指责企业囤积资金的行为，并敦促企业提高工人工资。
Politicians complain about firms' tendency to hoard cash, and urge firms to pay workers more.
政客指责企业囤积资金的行为，并敦促企业提高工人工资。
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