The retail industry -- e.g., clothing stores, grocers, and hardware shops -- understands the cost of keeping a large inventory.

零售业——例如服装商场、杂货店和五金店——可以理解维持一个庞大的库存所需要的花费。

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That number is unlikely to shrink very rapidly, given the pressure on prices from a large "shadow" inventory of housing that is yet to hit the market (see chart) and the glacial pace of foreclosures.

由于市场还存在大量“影子库存”，加上市场还处在丧失抵押赎回权的冰河期，这都对价格造成冲击，因而负资产总额下降的可能性较小。

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This forces our work body to gain wait in the form of a large inventory of defects, undelivered features, missed deadlines, and bottlenecks.

这迫使我们的劳动力以大量的缺陷、未交付的特性、错过的最终期限，和瓶颈的形式得以等待。

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Although some believe bargain basement prices for distressed properties may be ending, a large inventory still exists.

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The industry is expected to recover slowly as a large inventory of homes will maintain downward pressure on pricing.

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Changes in vacancies and inventories are strongly correlated: for example, San Jose, Bakersfield and Seattle all had large vacancy declines and large inventory declines year over year (using NAR inventory data).

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