But technology has reduced transaction costs, making sharing assets cheaper and easier than ever-and therefore possible on a much larger scale.

但是，技术已经降低了交易成本，使得共享资产比以往更便宜、更容易——因此，在更大的范围内共享资产是可能的。

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Not only are we bringing about the extinction of life on a vast scale, we are also making the land and the air and the sea so toxic that the very conditions of life are being destroyed.

我们不仅使生物大规模灭绝，还令陆地、空气和海洋含有巨大毒性，从而使生物的生存条件遭到破坏。

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In Africa,the foundation works with the non-profit organization KickStart, which develops inexpensive technology for small-scale farmers, and sets up local profit-making distribution systems.

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And so in the 1940s, a group of people led by Collier started to develop a large scale production method for making a reliable source of vaccinia virus.

在二十世纪四十年代,科利尔带领一群人开始研究,一种大规模的生产方法,这种方法能制得牛痘病毒的可靠来源

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He says that's not fair. "Whether it's gay marriage, whether it's making changes in the community or making changes on a broad scale - if I'm a citizen of the United States, it affects me as well."

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Now that Ushio is sober, and actively making large-scale works using paint and boxing gloves, Noriko has begun flourishing in her own career, documenting their life in illustrations for a graphic novel that exposes their intimate secrets.

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Even larger leaps in sizing technology are being made by companies like Acustom Apparel, which uses 3D body scanners along with pattern-making software to scale the creation of custom-fitted clothing at a digestible price point.

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AstraZeneca ( AZN - news - people ) tapped into the booming Chinese pharmaceutical market by making large-scale, multiyear offshoring investments in everything from manufacturing to sales, partnering with local universities, government organizations and Chinese companies.

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