The more silicon you put in the battery, the easier it is to drive costs down.

电池中的硅越多，就越容易降低成本。

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In most other industries, new more productive technologies drive costs down: thus the word processor replaced the typewriter, and the fax (and then E-mail) replaced the telex.

在其他大多数行业，提高生产效率的新技术帮助降低生产成本：这就是为何文字处理机能取代打字机，传真(及后来电子邮件)能取代电报。

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The thing that is wrong with this strategy is that taking prices up, or using your volume to drive costs down, in order to get to positive gross margins is a lot harder than most people think.

这种策略是错误的，原因在于：希望通过提价或利用规模优势降低成本从而实现正的毛利率，要比大多数人想象的难得多。

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The idea is that competition among plans will drive down costs.

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A major point of difference between the two main parties is whether the government should offer a health insurance program to compete with private insurance companies in an effort to drive down health care costs.

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The SEC wanted the New York Stock Exchange to have competition to drive costs down.

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James A. Wier, CEO of Simplicity Manufacturing (a producer of lawn mowers) has said that Wal-Mart's main mission is to drive costs down.

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Essentially, Pharmacia will allow generic-drug companies to make cheap copycats and drive costs down even further under the condition that the drugs are sold only in poor nations.

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