More importantly, the skeptics argued, any current increase in automobile and durable goods sales would be reversed in the future as households absorbed the cost of the subsidies.

怀疑者认为，更重要的是，虽然目前汽车与耐用消费品销售量增加，在未来，家户吸收这些补贴成本的时候，销售量会随之反转。

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Access to the Internet costs more, but compare these fees with just one paper programming manual, engineering reference guide, or college textbook; the cost is absorbed in fewer than four books.

连入互联网的费用会多一些，但是与纸质的程序设计手册、工程参考指南或者大学教科书相比，这些费用可被不到四本书抵消。

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The poorer the country, the larger the share of its health-care budget typically absorbed by the cost of drugs.

国家越贫穷，其花费在药品上的经费占医保预算越大。

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Employment continued to fall at modest pace, while businesses absorbed cost pressures as charges remained broadly unchanged.

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An LDA spokesman said the funding gap could be absorbed through cost cutting.

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One thing that allows HBO to offset this cost is that most of its programming, on an hourly basis, is movies (remember that HBO stands for Home Box Office), the rights to which are relatively less expensive than producing original content, as much of the production cost of these films has been absorbed by box office sales.

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