Here, it seems, is a surefire business-losing proposition.

看起来，这是个万无一失的亏本生意主张。

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'It's a losing proposition for me to try to catch up with Oracle,' which had $20.8 billion in cash at the end of November.

该公司年收入为61亿美元，有26美元现金储备；而去年11月底，甲骨文有208亿美元现金。

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Canada stopped making pennies in 2012, and with good reason. Coining pennies is a money-losing proposition, and people don't really need them anymore.

加拿大自2012年开始停止制造1分硬币，是有充足理由的。制造这种硬币是一门赔钱的生意，而且人们已经不再需要它了。

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A casino does not have a risk that the law of large numbers will be repealed and a roulette table will be a long-term losing proposition or a craps table will be a long-term losing proposition.

一个赌场不会有,大数定理被替代,或者轮盘赌和,双骰赌博会是长期亏本买卖的风险。

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Focusing on one nutrient is a losing proposition, according to some people, but there are others who say that, nope some nutrients prevail over others and are highly important compared to other things that you might be concerned with.

对一些人而言,只关注一种营养的多寡,就像是一宗亏本买卖,是一叶障目的,但还有其他人说,不对,某些营养比其他营养更关键,而且相比其他,营养更应成为需重点考虑的部分

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Take that out of the equation and app-based publishing, like print publishing, is a cost-heavy, money-losing proposition.

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"People who do care about preserving those norms are probably feeling it's a losing proposition, " he says.

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Selling on price is a losing proposition, and once discounts are offered they can almost never be recouped.

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