The firm had shaved profit margins.

公司调低了利润率。

What are your average operating margins?

你的平均营业利润率是多少？

Position the cursor where you want the new margins to begin.

将光标放在你所要的新页边空白开端。

You can individualize a document by adding comments in the margins.

你可以通过在页边的空白处添加评论来使文件与众不同。

Newspaper Web sites can coexist with the newspapers and still bring in healthy profit margins.

网络报纸可以与纸质报纸共存，仍能带来不错的利润。

They commonly grow near stream channels, springs, or on the margins of lakes.

它们通常生长在溪流、泉水附近或湖泊边缘。

It is in no one's interest to keep a large segment of the population on the margins of society.

将极大一部分人置于社会边缘不符合任何人的利益。

That could dent margins and compromise the sense of freedom its managers so obviously enjoy today.

那可能会降低利润，并危及其经理人目前明显享有的自由感。

Mercedes and BMW have enjoyed the best margins in the business, but they have lost lots of money on their small cars.

梅赛德斯和宝马在这个行业享有最大的利润，但他们在小型汽车的损失也很多。

Therefore, in the future, profit margins will be higher at seafood stores within the city than at suburban seafood stores.

因此，在未来，城市海鲜店的利润率将比郊区海鲜店的利润率更高。

Some mountains were formed as a result of these plates crashing into each other and forcing up the rock at the plate margins.

一些山脉是由于这些板块相互碰撞，迫使板块边缘的岩石向上移动而形成的。

Lower-income residences, along with manufacturing facilities, would be confined, therefore, to the western margins of the CBD.

因此，低收入住宅和制造业设施将被限制在中心商务区的西部边缘。

This strategy ensures that every dollar spent on enhanced information technology will help to increase our firm's profit margins.

这一战略确保了花在强化信息技术上的每一美元都将有助于提高我们公司的利润率。

"Breakfast has the potential to be very profitable," says Sara Senatore of Bernstein, a research firm, "because the margins can be high."

伯恩斯坦研究公司的萨拉·塞纳托雷表示：“早餐业务有可能非常赚钱，因为其利润可以很高。”

If Canada level pricing came to the United States, the industry's profit margins would drop and the pace of new drug development would slow.

如果加拿大的定价水平也适用于美国，制药行业的利润率将会下降，新药开发的步伐将会放缓。

If Canada-level pricing came to the United States, the industry's profit margins would drop and the pace of new-drug development would slow.

如果加拿大这种水平的定价进入美国，行业的利润率将会下降且新药开发的步伐将会放缓。

Corn is extensively used as feed for livestock, and because profit margins are tight in the livestock business, many farmers are expected to leave the business.

玉米被广泛用作牲畜饲料，由于畜牧业的利润率很低，许多农民预计将退出这一行业。

Another factor is the squeeze that conventional dairy farmers have felt as the price of grain they feed their cows has gone up, tightening their profit margins.

另一个因素是，传统的奶农在他们喂养奶牛的谷物价格上涨时感到了压力，他们的利润空间也被压缩。

Scientific publishers routinely report profit margins approaching 40% on their operations at a time when the rest of the publishing industry is in an existential crisis.

当其他出版商陷入生存危机之际，科学出版公司的运营利润率却如往常一样接近40%。

The head-to-head competition might give them a strong incentive to lower their prices, perhaps by accepting slimmer profit margins or demanding better deals from providers.

直接的竞争可能会强烈刺激它们降低价格，也许是通过接受更低的利润率或者要求供应商提供更好的交易条件。

During the dry periods that are common phenomena along the desert margins, the pressure on the land is often far in excess of its diminished capacity, and desertification results.

在沙漠边缘地区常有的旱季，土地所受的压力往往远超其被削弱的承受能力，沙漠化因此发生。

He lost the race by the narrowest of margins.

他以极小的差距在赛跑中落败。

Students have played an important role in the past, but for the moment, they're on the margins.

学生们过去发挥了重要的作用，但现在，他们不再重要了。

Their loss was partly due to a vicious price war between manufacturers that has cut margins to the bone.

他们的亏损部分是因为制造商之间把利润空间削减到了极点的一场恶性价格战。

Most students write questions or short notes in the margins.

大多数学生在空白处写下疑问或简短的笔记。

Not the 20% profit margins that were routine a few years ago, but profit all the same.

尽管不是几年前惯常的20%的利润率，但依然赚取了利润。

When you're sitting in class, have you ever drawn pictures in the margins of your notebooks?

当你正在上课的时候，你有没有在笔记本的空白处画过画？

After the 2006 election, Sean Trende constructed a graph comparing the incumbent campaign spending advantages with their eventual margins of victory.

2006年大选后，肖恩•特伦德制作了一张图表，将现任总统的竞选开支优势与他们最终的获胜优势进行比较。

Museums that house Renaissance oil paintings typically store them in environments that are carefully kept within narrow margins of temperature and humidity to inhibit any deterioration.

收藏文艺复兴时期油画的博物馆通常将它们保存在严格控制温度和湿度的环境中，以防止老化。

When storing Renaissance oil paintings, museums conform to standards that call for careful control of the surrounding temperature and humidity, with variations confined within narrow margins.

博物馆在储存文艺复兴时期的油画时，要遵循严格控制周围温度和湿度的标准，把变化限制在狭小的范围内。