U.S. firms themselves may not have a high labor component in their cost structure but their suppliers — and their suppliers — do.

在成本结构当中，美国公司本身的劳动力成本所占比例也许不高，但他们的供应商——以及供应商的供应商——就不是这样了。

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U. S. firms themselves may not have a high labor component in their cost structure but their suppliers - and their suppliers - do.

在成本结构当中，美国公司本身的劳动力成本所占比例也许不高，但他们的供应商——以及供应商的供应商——就不是这样了。

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That, I think, is partly because the biggest single component of building costs is labor.

我想,有部分原因是因为,建筑成本的最主要构成因素就是劳动力

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