Likewise if Jones' product was available more readily or less expensively from some other source Jones would either go out of business or be forced to lower his prices to a competitive rate.

同样地，如果消费者能从其他地方更容易或者更便宜地买到与琼斯公司产品类似的产品，那么如果琼斯不降低产品价格以提高竞争力，他的公司就不能盈利。

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And, as oil prices have risen and become more volatile, alternative energy technologies are becoming more "competitive" and have created much greater worldwide interest in such options, he adds.

随着石油价格的攀升和越来越不稳定，替代能源技术正变得更具“竞争性”，引起了全世界对此类方案的更大兴趣，他补充说。

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In Indonesia, when procurement for a project in Bali was made more transparent and competitive, infrastructure prices decreased by almost one-third.

在印尼，巴厘的一个项目提高了采购的透明度和竞争后，基础设施价格下降了近三分之一。

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The assumption of the Peterson paper is that currency interventions are undertaken by foreign governments to suppress domestic currency values in order to render export prices more competitive.

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Yuan appreciation not only bolsters the buying power of Chinese consumers, but it makes Chinese-based producers and assemblers more competitive because the relative prices of their imported inputs fall, reducing their costs of production.

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According to Huckabee's reckoning, his plan will promote capital investment in the U.S. and make domestic goods cheaper and more competitive overseas because their prices will no longer be inflated by the payment of corporate taxes.

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