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While climate is a key element, Moritz says, it shouldn’t come at the expense of the rest of the equation.

虽然气候是一个关键因素，莫里茨表示，但它不应以牺牲方程中的其他要素为代价。

There seems to be a predominance of short-term thinking at the expense of long-term investing," said Commissioner Daniel Gallagher of the US Securities and Exchange Commission in a speech this week.

美国证券交易委员会委员丹尼尔·加拉格尔本周在一次演讲中表示："似乎存在一种以牺牲长期投资为代价的短期思维占主导的现象。"

Furthermore, the highest CEO salaries are paid to outside candidates, not to the cozy insider picks, another sign that high CEO pay is not some kind of depredation at the expense of the rest of the company.

此外，最高的首席执行官薪酬是给予外部候选人，而不是给予那些关系密切的内部挑选的人，这又是一个迹象，表明高额的首席执行官薪酬并非是以牺牲公司其他部分的利益为代价的掠夺行为。

The commission argued that other agencies would protect against anti-competitive behavior, such as a broadband-providing conglomerate like AT&T favoring its own video-streaming service at the expense of Netflix and Apple TV.

委员会辩称，其他机构将负责防止反竞争行为，例如像AT&T这样的宽带提供商 conglomerate 偏袒其自身的视频流媒体服务，而损害Netflix和Apple TV等竞争对手。

But both these criteria would be at the expense of time.

但这两个标准都需要以时间为代价。