The capital sunk in it is fabulous in amount.

投入的资金数量惊人。

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Marxs sunk costs are defined as inability to realize in the market the full value of their product and the residual value of capital investment.

虽然马克思没有使用沉淀成本这一概念，但已认识到沉淀成本的本质特征——成本补偿或价值实现问题。

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The transformation exacted a price from possessors of old skills and of sunk capital, which is why the Luddites went around smashing machinery.

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Yet each firm has sunk so much capital in plants that it is strongly tempted to use the capacity to build extra cars that fetch enough revenue to cover marginal costs in the short run, but not total costs in the long run.

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Yet over the same period, their margins and return on capital have sunk.

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