Shortsighted pursuit of victory in an imagined clean energy race will backfire, keeping costs high and public appetite for clean energy down.

在想象的清洁能源竞赛中获取胜利的短视将使事与愿违，将使成本高企，公众对清洁能源的愿望下降。

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The other reason why costs are so high is the restrictive guild-like ownership structure of the business.

成本如此之高的另一个原因是行业协会具有约束性的所有权结构等限制性因素。

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The high costs of converting to sound and the early limitations of sound technology were among the factors that suppressed innovations or retarded advancement in these other areas.

声音转化的高成本和早期声音技术的局限阻碍了这些发明在其所在其他领域的发展。

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Economists blamed the crisis on different causes, including high energy costs, bad weather and the use of food-crop lands for biofuel production.

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They will do it as long as the home price is high relative to their construction costs.

只要房价相对建筑成本有利可图,建造商们就不会停止步伐

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If the company gets too leveraged then there's too high a probability that the company will fail and there are costs to bankruptcy.

如果公司的杠杆率太高,那么公司倒闭的可能性会极高,然后会产生破产费用

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Much of Delphi's U.S. business is unprofitable, since its factories here are old, their labor costs high and their operations labor intensive.

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This is chiefly linked to rigid labour-market rules and payroll charges on employers, which between them keep labour costs high and deter job creation.

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It makes no sense to have a lot of exchanges in a single currency area, because they disperse liquidity and keep trading costs high.

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