Those improvements are providing comparable benefits to electric vehicles at a lower cost, but the Center for Automotive Research cautioned that consumers still will resist increased costs.

这些改进正给电动车的低成本提供了相当可观的收益，但是汽车研究中心提醒道消费者可能仍然倾向高价格的产品。

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It is not hard to see why they resist: a safe system would force average returns lower as high-yield activities came with more frequent, but systemically harmless, failures.

不难看出后者为什么抗拒：一个安全的系统将压低平均回报率，因为高收益活动将带来更频繁的、于系统无害的倒闭。

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The inadequacy of allocation of assets impairment will not only lower commercial bank's ability to resist risk but also water its profit.

资产损失准备提取不充分，不仅会降低商业银行抗风险能力，也会造成商业银行利润虚增。

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So, we should use that, but people in finance resist using that because it's a lower number and when you're advertising your return you want to make it look as big as possible.

所以我们应该用这个指标,但金融界反感使用几何平均,因为它比其他平均数都来得小,他们为自己的收益率做广告时,当然希望数字越大越好

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In this sort of form, none of the lower order were likely to resist Anderson for long and Sulieman Benn frankly did well to last 12 balls, before a superb ball swung through his defences to make a mess of the stumps.

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Given all of that it will be very hard for her to resist the pressure to lower standards.

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Mr Bewley concludes that employers resist pay cuts largely because the savings from lower wages are usually outweighed by the cost of denting workers' morale: pay cuts hit workers' standard of living and lower their self-esteem.

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