However, the increased flexibility comes at the price of decreased portability.

然而，灵活性增加是以可移植性降低为代价的。

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The answer is that speed comes at the price of flexibility.

答案是，速度的获得以灵活性的失去为代价。

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The price for the flexibility of a service-oriented architecture, where services can be swapped in or out rapidly, is a premium on organizing and controlling business activities.

面向服务的体系架构灵活性(这样服务可以快速地换入换出)的代价是组织并控制业务活动的额外费用。

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For the many Russians making Soviet-era goods that were unsalable at any price, barter became a way of restoring price flexibility.

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One way distributors hope to convince some of those customers to stick around is by offering them more flexibility in the form of programming packages offered at different price points.

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To date, inflation expectations appear to have remained reasonably well anchored, but any tendency of inflation expectations to become unmoored or for the Fed's inflation-fighting credibility to be eroded could greatly complicate the task of sustaining price stability and reduce the central bank's policy flexibility to counter shortfalls in growth in the future.

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