'It's a losing proposition for me to try to catch up with Oracle,' which had $20.8 billion in cash at the end of November.

该公司年收入为61亿美元，有26美元现金储备；而去年11月底，甲骨文有208亿美元现金。

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The study finds that once remittances are taken into account, the cost of education would have to be 5.6 times the official figure to make it a losing proposition for Ghana.

研究发现一旦将汇款考虑在内，教育成本将会是教育投入的5.6倍。这对加纳来说是赔本的生意。

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Matt and Alison Robicelli had both a fledgling cupcake operation and a specialty foods shop in Bay Ridge until last October, when they decided that brick-and-mortar was a losing proposition.

直到去年十月，马特和艾莉森，拥有一个蛋糕业务和一个特殊食品店，但他们看出传统的实体店是赔本生意。

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Focusing on one nutrient is a losing proposition, according to some people, but there are others who say that, nope some nutrients prevail over others and are highly important compared to other things that you might be concerned with.

对一些人而言,只关注一种营养的多寡,就像是一宗亏本买卖,是一叶障目的,但还有其他人说,不对,某些营养比其他营养更关键,而且相比其他,营养更应成为需重点考虑的部分

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A casino does not have a risk that the law of large numbers will be repealed and a roulette table will be a long-term losing proposition or a craps table will be a long-term losing proposition.

一个赌场不会有,大数定理被替代,或者轮盘赌和,双骰赌博会是长期亏本买卖的风险。

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"People who do care about preserving those norms are probably feeling it's a losing proposition, " he says.

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Selling on price is a losing proposition, and once discounts are offered they can almost never be recouped.

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In November Kmart took them up on the promise, and suddenly it is all too visible as a losing proposition.

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