由于劳动力成本是他们最大的成本之一——平均占美国农场生产费用的42%——他们开始使用一种由酿酒商使用的机器改装而成的机械收割机。

With labour one of their biggest costs—42 percent of production expenses on U.S. farms, on average—they started using a mechanical harvester adapted from a machine used by wine makers.

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例如，著名的商业杂志经常评论德国劳动力的“高”成本，以德国工人的平均工资作为证据。

For example, prominent business journals often remark on the "high" cost of German labor, citing as evidence the average amount paid to German workers.

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由于劳动力是他们最大的成本之一——平均占美国农场生产成本的42%——他们开始使用机械收割。

With labour one of their biggest costs—42 percent of production expenses on U.S. farms, on average—they started using a mechanical harvest.

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