We also cut our profit margins still further.

我们还进步削减了利润率。

Which have a shorter shelf life and bring in lower margins.

它们的保质期较短，利润率也较低。

The competitor like Ford that has slimmer margins to work with.

特这样的竞争对手的利润率更低。

It would be much more beneficial to put all our efforts into winning higher-margin contracts.

把所有的努力用在赢得利润率更高的合同中，对我们来说会更加有利可图。

At BMW, one of the most profitable of these, such margins are around 20%.

宝马是利润率最高的汽制造商之，但是也只能达到20%左右。

But there too volume tumbled as issuance dwindled and interest rates fell, eroding margins.

但随着债券发行量的减少和利率的下降，这些债券的发行量也大幅下降，侵蚀了利润率。

Big firms' net margins have actually been rising.

大公司的净利润率实直在升。

The restaurants in particular are restive, not least because food is already a low-margin business.

餐馆尤其不安，特别因为食品已经是个低利润率的行业。

Operating margins last year hit 34%, best in the industry.

去年的营业利润率达到了34％，在业内名列前茅。

Let's get the profit to this amount of margin.

让利润达到这个利润率。

If they did not, it would hurt their margins and discourage lending.

如果银行不这么做，那他们的利润率就会受到影响，进而抑制贷款。

So that means their profit margins have been very, very healthy from banks.

这意味着银行的利润率非常非常高。

The reason is its growth rate, its higher margins and its huge market potential.

这源于它的增长速度、更高的利润率和巨大的市场潜力。

There is some indication that margins are shrinking.

有些迹象表明，利润率正在缩小。

So the competition is fierce and profit margins, the money stores make on groceries, are small.

因此，竞争非常激烈，利润率，在日常用品店赚的钱很少得。

Look at appetizers, for example, with an average profit margin all the way down at 22%.

以开胃菜为例，其平均利润率低至22%。

Profit margins for restaurants are not particularly high.

餐厅的利润率并不高。

It has relentlessly squeezed their profit margins in recent years in search of efficiency.

近年来，为了追求效率，播音无情地挤压了供应商的利润率。

The Big Six retailers earned an average margin on domestic energy sales of 4.3% in 2012.

六大零售商在2012年获得了4.3%的国内能源销售的平均利润率。

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

虽然利润率不是几年前惯常的 20%，但不管怎样至少现在有钱可赚。