It was a great honour to be invited backstage at the not-for-profit Panda Base, where ticket money helps pay for research, I was allowed to get up close to these cute animals at the 600-acre centre.

能被邀请到非营利性熊猫基地的后台，我感到非常荣幸。在那里，门票收入用来支付研究费用，我可以在600英亩的中心近距离地接触这些可爱的动物。

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Yet, as we have demonstrated, it has an identifiable disciplinary base in explaining why firms differ from one another in terms of their profit performance, despite of equilibrating competition.

然而，正如我们已经阐述的，尽管还存在着势均力敌的竞争，但在解释为什么企业在其利润业绩的彼此存在差异上，我们还是有一个可识别的学科基础。

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Chao smartly wants to expand his user base, much as social networking behemoth Tencent did for years with its instant messaging service before earning a dime of profit.

曹非常精明，他想扩大新浪的用户群，正如社交网络巨头腾讯一样，在开始盈利以前，多年来一直在做即时通讯工具业务。

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An investment in Amazon now is a bet on a much higher sales and profit base five years down the road.

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They incentivize for a short-term goal of delivering greater than budgeted results, rather than for base-store profit growth year over year.

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"Nissan's never been represented in that segment with a market share or profit base up to our potential, so we are expecting a lot from our new Versa, " the British-born executive said.

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