Technology also threatens to fracture television into individual programmes, just as it has ruinously broken music albums into individual tracks. 科技的进步也使电视业面临节目个人化的威胁,就像它毁灭性地使得唱片变成个人任意组合的音轨。
Farmers had two roles: first, to produce as much grain as possible for urban consumption, however ruinously low the prices; second, to provide cheap labour to the cities. 农民扮演着双重角色:第一,尽可能多地生产粮食供给城市消费,不管粮食收购价有多低,农民受损有多严重;第二,为城市提供廉价劳动力。
Ruinously destructive and wasting. 毁灭性的破坏、损耗。
In fact, it's not a system at all: it is a ruinously expensive, tiring and highly political game in which almost everyone emerges a loser. 事实上,它根本算不上一个制度:它只是一个异常昂贵、使人疲惫而且勾心斗角的游戏。在这一制度下,几乎每个人都是输家。
"Free banking" has turned out to be ruinously expensive for many customers. 对于许多客户来说,“免费银行服务”最终被证明是无比昂贵的。
In the presence of transactions costs, the arbitrage argument used by Black-Scholes to price option no longer can be used: because continuous trading would be ruinously expensive, no matter how small transactions costs might be as a percentage of turnover. Black-scholes的理论是在无市场摩擦的状况下得到的,如果存在交易费用,上述讨论不再有效,无论交易费用多么小,连续的头寸调整也会带来巨额的交易成本。