Prices tend to reflect direct operating costs rather than employed capital.

价格就会反映直接运营成本，而不是所用资本。

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This is the measure of output (taken as operating profit after tax and some other adjustments) less input (taken as the annual rental charge on the total capital employed, both debt and equity).

这种方法是用产出（这里表示扣除营业税以及做了其他调整的营业净利润）减去投入（这里表示年度总投入资本，包括负债和权益）。

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But the Ivorian contractor it employed to pump out the hold of its tanker dumped them around inhabited areas in the capital city and the countryside. Tens of thousands of people fell ill and 15 died.

但公司雇来清空油料的科特迪瓦承包商却把油料倾倒在首都的市内居民区以及农村周围，好几万人因此染病，并有15人死亡。

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Between 1998 and 2001, the aim was to achieve a return on employed capital that was at least equal to its cost (8.5%).

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For years, hedge funds borrowed money in Japan at next to nothing and employed the capital in the fixed-income sector here.

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The lord and society would have been worse off had his concept of fairness been to give each servant the same amount since the other two servants employed the capital and returned twice what they had been given.

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