资本可以按照生产性资本的过去费用的过去成本来进行估价。

Capital may be valued at historic cost in terms of past expenditures on productive assets.

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在过去的一年里，实际工资成本增加了10%。

Real wage costs have risen by 10% in the past year.

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加尔文和马丁以葡萄干行业为例，观察了过去不断上升的就业成本是如何促使人们采用节省劳动力的农业技术的。

Calvin and Martin have observed how rising employment costs led to the adoption of labour-saving farm technology in the past, citing the raisin industry as an example.

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