One function of profits, in brief, is to guide and channel the factors of production so as to apportion the relative output of thousands of different commodities in accordance with demand.

总之，利润的一大功能是为生产要素的配置指出合理的方向，并且为之开辟途径。 只有这样，我们才能恰当地确定无数不同产品的相对产出，使它与需求相一致。

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workers and other factors of production would be directed freely to produce in perfect accord with consumer preference;

工作的人与其它生产要素会得到免费的指引，去从事与消费者的意欲完全吻合的产出；

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All of these factors play into the performance and capacity planning stages of the production environment in order to accomplish optimal performance.

所有这些因素将适用于生产环境的性能和容量规划阶段从而达到最佳性能。

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Jerome Benezech, the director of Farmlink, which is working with local farmers to increase pepper production, says the pepper's unique flavor is thanks to a combination of factors found only in Kampot.

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