a periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.)

an obvious explanation for the relationship is operational gearing; companies need a certain level of sales to cover their fixed costs and once that level is reached, margins rise substantially.

对此联系的最浅显解释便是经营杠桿。公司用于弥补固定成本的销售额是一定的，而达到该水平后，利润率将显着增长。

a deep recession, received wisdom had it, would surely finish off newspapers, which have high fixed costs in the form of journalists and printing presses.

报业因其新闻记者和印刷设备产生的高昂的固定成本，定将被公认的严重的经济萧条毁灭。

lagardère’s distribution division, for example, which ships printed material out to retail stores, has fixed costs and direct exposure to tumbling newspaper and magazine circulation.

比如交运印刷品到各零售店的拉加代尔分销部门，有固定成本， 因此对报纸与杂志发行量暴跌有直接的敞口风险。

once a valuable drug is developed, however, the cost of producing each pill is usually small, certainly a tiny fraction of its fixed costs of development.

然而，一旦一种宝贵的药物被成功的研制出来，每片药丸的成本是很小的，确实只是其研发阶段固定成本的一小部分。

herbie skeete of mondo visione, an exchanges consultancy, points out that most hft firms have already incurred the fixed costs of developing their proprietary-trading platforms.

交易咨询所mondovisione的herbieskeete指出，大多数高频交易公司发展自营交易平台时已经发生了固定成本。

purchases must be of a significant size because of the high fixed costs involved, but smaller than gkn itself, which has a market value of 2.2 billion pounds, bryson said in an interview.

布里森在采访中表示，必须进行大规模并购，因为涉及固定成本过高，但是对方规模要小于市值22亿美元的吉凯恩公司。

the industry’s high fixed costs make profits vulnerable.

一直以来，邮政业的运营成本都很高而且很难改变，这也使得该行业的盈利处于十分脆弱的状态。

the challenge is therefore in getting the most from those fixed costs to benefit customers.

因此，问题是如何从固定成本中获得最大产出，并使客户受益？

those upfront, fixed costs are enormous, mr. mehdi acknowledges, but once microsoft’s search traffic and ad volumes rise, the financial picture could brighten quickly.

这项预付的固定成本是非常巨大的，mr.mehdi承认，但是一旦微软bing的搜索量上升，广告收益增加，一个好的钱景就会出现。

rising fixed costs give rise to moore’s second law: as the cost of transistors comes down, the cost of fabs goes up, albeit not at quite the same rate.

固定成本上升引起摩尔第二定律：尽管不是完全相同的速率，随着晶体管成本下降，晶圆成本上升。

the traditional tour operators' business model is out of date, says jamie rollo of morgan stanley, a bank. their fixed costs are high.

「传统旅游公司的运营模式已经过时了，」摩根史坦利投资银行的杰米?罗洛说道，“他们的固有成本很高。

despite a strong recovery in most firms’ profits, they have been reluctant to shoulder new fixed costs and keen to maintain flexibility, which should help them weather another downturn.

尽管大多数公司的收益都得到了强劲恢复，他们仍不愿意承担新的固定成本的增加，以帮助他们在下一场衰退到来时能保持应对的灵活度。

with a dog outside of a city — meaning no dog walker — the fixed costs can be fairly low, but a family needs to have a cushion for those times when the medical care costs increase.

如果你在城外养狗，也许是因为不用遛狗，固定的支出可以减少，但是当遇到特殊情况时，医疗保健费用将会增加。

it can bring savings by spreading the fixed costs of operating an exchange over a greater number of products.

这还可以通过将交易所的固定费用分散到更多的产品上去。

the fixed costs of modern passenger aircraft are very high, but the marginal costs--the costs of carrying one more passenger if the plane is not full--are very low.

现代客机的固定成本巨大，但是其边际成本-在未满的前提下每增加一名乘客所增加的成本-非常低。

they are part of an overhaul that gm says will lower its annual fixed costs by $5 billion, giving it a better chance to reverse its fortunes.

这只是改革措施的一部分，gm还将减少50亿美元的年固定成本，希望借此扭转颓势，实现盈利。

that sounds like a very appealing statement, but it turns out not to be true if there are high fixed costs to providing stuff.

这句话倒是很动听，但如果供货的固定成本较高，它就不那么适用了。

they typically have very high fixed costs of research and development and low marginal costs of adding additional users.

它们仅仅具有很高的用于研发的固定成本和极低的由新增服用者引发的边际成本。

companies need a certain level of sales to cover their fixed costs and once that level is reached, margins rise substantially.

公司用于弥补固定成本的销售额是一定的，而达到该水平后，利润率将显着增长。