Carnivorous plants are so finely tuned to low levels of nitrogen that this extra fertilizer is overloading their systems, and they eventually burn themselves out and die.

肉食性植物能很好地适应低浓度氮，因此这些额外的肥料会使它们的系统负担过重，最终它们会被压垮并死亡。

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Low-level slash and burn farming doesn't harm rainforest.

低水平的刀耕火种不会损害雨林。

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We are largely volunteer-driven, which means that our "burn rate" is relatively low.

我们大量依靠志愿者，也就是说“烧钱”的速度相对较低。

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New international regulations that require ships to burn low sulfur grades of fuel rather than the comparatively inexpensive bunker fuels most ships currently burn.

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So one of the things we're doing with DotSpots that's quite different is that we're trying to keep our burn rate as low as possible, trying to keep the ownership in the hands of our employees.

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Maybe web commerce is meant to grow like the web itself--organically, from the bottom up, with low cash burn.

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