These conditions are costly to treat, for households and societies, and they are increasingly concentrated in the urban poor.

对家庭和社会来说，这些病症的治疗费用很高，而且也越来越集中地出现在城市穷人身上。

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A poor lineup of smartphones has been a weak point for Samsung as consumers increasingly move into the high-end segment that Apple jump-started with the iPhone in 2007.

如今越来越多的消费者涌入苹果于2007年推出iPhone的高端市场，那么对于三星来讲，智能手机阵容薄弱一直是其弱点所在。

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Food is another expenditure that has proved vulnerable to hard times, with the rural poor turning increasingly to "food auctions," which offer items that may be past their sell-by dates.

事实证明，在困难时期易受影响的另一项开支是食物，因为越来越多的农村贫困人口转向“食品拍卖”，但通过这种方式提供的食品可能已过期。

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Across the world, the power of small business entrepreneurship to build prosperity for the poor is being increasingly recognized.

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There are too many teams, which is a big reason why the NBA has increasingly become a league of the rich and the poor.

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Take in the view from micro: factory owners increasingly find their single digit margins poor consolation for the grueling regimen of running 3 shifts a day, 330 days a year, with double digit workforce turnover.

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