Institutions aggregate individuals in order to maximize their institutional effectiveness, but that aggregation is not without its costs.

各种机构把个人聚合在一起是为了最大化机构的效力，然而这种聚合并不是没有代价的。

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Considering the rising environmental costs, which was underpriced in China, some manufacturers will face the rise in socio-economic aggregate cost.

在环境成本方面，中国过去定价比较低，而随着环境成本的真实化，某些制造行业将会感受到社会经济综合成本的上升。

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We discovered that there is a point where aggregate index costs—more-expensive INSERT and DELETE operations, for example—outweigh a new index's query speed-up benefit.

我发现有一个聚合索引成本的点 — 例如，更为昂贵的 INSERT 和 DELETE 操作 — 超出一个新索引的查询加速所能带来的效益。

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This update in earlier software has 300 new features that are said to reduce risk, slash costs by up to 50%, reduce administrative overhead by up to 80% and lower aggregate support costs by up to 35%.

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Analytics firms and health insurers say they obey medical-privacy regulations, and employers never see the staff's personal health profiles but only an aggregate picture of their health needs and expected costs.

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So much skill, in fact, that Keane started patenting those innovations--like how to aggregate thousands of orders into batches to trim costs, or how to make his Web site's design tool (which lets customers whip up their own brochures and business cards) communicate seamlessly with Web browsers.

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