Once you're profitable, you can make more purchases, but even those should be limited to what you need. Your business should be a "lean, mean, debt reducing machine".

一旦你有利可图，你就能采购更多的东西，但是即使是这些你也应该将采购范围限制于你所需要的。

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Reducing the production costs of individual machine parts is the only way to achieve our larger goal of reducing our overall production costs.

降低单个机器零件的生产成本是我们实现降低整体生产成本这一更大目标的唯一途径。

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A machine tool's control can be a barrier to reducing the machining cycle time and improving the finish of complicated 3d molds, aerospace parts or medical-device components.

机床数控系统可能会成为复杂3d模型、航空件和医疗零件加工中减少循环时间、提高精加工表面质量的障碍。

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This involved changing how a page is stored and printed from portrait to landscape, thereby reducing the machine footprint.

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Josafa Candido, a 30-year Vasp veteran appointed caretaker of its Congonhas ghost town, said he was sad to see a giant airplane shredding machine ordered up by Mr. Melek reducing three Vasp Boeing 737s there to piles of scrap.

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In five years, Dutra says, more efficient servers and virtualization--the conversion of multiple computers into software that can be run on a single machine--will allow Sun to do away with five of its eight data centers, reducing both the centers' square footage and data consumption by around 50%.

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