当技术的价格和性能迅速提高时，一度被认为不受自动化影响的工作突然受到威胁。
When there is rapid improvement in the price and performance of technology, jobs that were once thought to be immune from automation suddenly become threatened.
这是一项正在发展的技术——意味着价格最终会下降——而市场似乎确实在增长。
It is a developing technology—meaning prices should eventually drop—and the market does seem to be growing.
随着19世纪大规模生产技术的改进，钢琴的价格下降到更多人都买得起的程度。
As mass production techniques were refined in the 19th century, the price of pianos dropped to the point that a larger proportion of the population could afford to own them.
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