While the actual wattage difference between a 1 TB SATA drive and a 300 GB Fibre Channel drive is marginal, the cost difference on a watt-per-capacity basis is significant.

虽然1TB SATA驱动器和一个300 GB的光纤通道驱动器的实际功率差异相差不远，但瓦特/容量（单位容量的能耗）的成本差异极大。

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It can take more than two hours to drive a couple of miles along the Marginal, the city's palm-lined coastal road.

沿着城郊海滨公路，数着两旁的棕榈树，驱车“挪”上几英里，得花两个多小时！

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"The benefits in terms of ultimately adding to the safety and security of the American people would be marginal and questionable.

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The manuscripts we find from this period are full of marginal notes where the scholars are chiding each other and saying, "No, no, no. It can't be that way."

我们找到了有大量旁注的手稿,学者们相互争论，互不服气“

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And I think it made a marginal but real contribution to the possibility of normalization of relations there.

我觉得我们的贡献不大，但实实在在,帮助实现了两国的重新建交。

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Or rather, to be more accurate, the marginal cost to the consumer closer to the marginal cost of production for the producer.

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Wood Mackenzie, an oil consultancy in Edinburgh, says that more than half of the international oil companies' long-term capital investments are now going into these four "resource themes" a huge shift, considering how marginal the companies once considered them.

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In formal terms, the consumer has an incentive to spend until the marginal benefit of additional spending, or additional health care is zero, so different from an efficient market, where consumers spend until the marginal benefit is equal to the marginal cost.

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