His research shows rapidly growing sales often lead to very low levels of profit by Chinese companies, well below their cost of capital.

他的研究结果表明，中国企业的快速销售增长通常都伴随出现极低的利润率，低过其资金成本。

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The distance between the sales line and the total cost line at a volume below the break-even point represents losses that will occur for various output levels.

在均衡点以下的收入线与总成本线的差距表示各种产出水平下发生的亏损。

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Let's just make sure we understand this, if the other guy is selling below cost, the only way I can make any sales is to price below his price.

来确认下大家都明白这点,如果另外一家公司定价低于成本,我想卖出产品的唯一方法就是定价比它低

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Under government proposals the ban is on sales of alcohol below the rate of duty plus VAT, rather than including the cost of producing the drinks.

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It wasn't uncommon for monitors to sell for below what it cost to make them--the benefit being that sales in 2001 were about double that of the previous year.

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But to maximize profitability under this data sales model, Facebook wants to drive the cost of data center infrastructure to some point below that of commodity boxes servers and storage arrays for example.

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