The researchers suggest that choosing to pay less than an announced lower-than-expected price made people feel cheap.

研究人员称，低于预期的价格让人们觉得很便宜。

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Initially, member states overestimated their emissions in order to get lots of permits, so the carbon price was lower than the commission had expected.

起初时，成员国为了谋取利益过高的估计它们的排放量，结果使得碳价低于委员会的预期值。

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The price at which Apple will be able to procure these panels will be lower than expected as the capital commitment by Apple likely necessitates below market pricing in our view.

苹果获取屏幕的价格可能比业界预计的要低，因为苹果的订单数额巨大，所以它极有可能压低市场价格。

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It enters a hotly-contested market led by Groupon which recently suffered a dip in share price owing to lower-than-expected sales.

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In fact, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings declared flat-out that in his Q4 letter to shareholders that he expected Amazon to offer a subscription-based streaming service at a lower price than Netflix offers.

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