Also, the expense of development and test labor makes it important to be able to keep developers and testers productive with the systems they depend on operational.

另外，考虑到开发和测试工作的费用，让开发人员和测试人员使用他们所依赖的系统高效工作非常重要。

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The profits of American companies are derived from the cheap labor in offshored locations and are at the expense of the American work force.

美国公司的利润获自海外廉价劳力并以美国劳力的失业为代价。

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Meanwhile, labor wadges will be more expensive, the price of energy and resources more reflectable to the ralation of market supply and demand as well as to the expense of environmental devaluation.

同时，劳动工资会向上调整，能源资源价格会进一步反映市场供求关系和环境成本。

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So, here was a royal tomb closed forever and yet built at a fantastic expense and enormous kind of labor.

由此可见,这里曾是一个以惊人的财富,和巨大的劳动力建成的封存的皇家墓穴

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