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Often they “trade up,” leaving riskier, smaller firms for larger and more stable firms.

他们常常是“向上跳槽”，从风险更大、规模更小的公司转去更大的、更稳定的公司。

The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive, for example, were smaller – two-bedroom units under 1,000 square feet – than those in their older neighbors along the city’s Gold Coast.

例如，密斯在芝加哥湖岸大道（Lake Shore Drive）上建造的那些优雅的高层建筑中的公寓，面积不到1000平方英尺的两居室单位，比沿城市黄金海岸（Gold Coast）的老邻居们的公寓还要小。

classify consumers into smaller groups

将消费者分类为更小的群体

Sellers that use eBay and Etsy, which provide platforms for smaller sellers, also haven't been collecting sales tax nationwide.

使用eBay和Etsy的卖家，这两个平台为小型卖家提供服务，也一直没有在全国范围内收取销售税。

The losers, said retail analyst Neil Saunders, are online-only retailers, especially smaller ones.

零售分析师尼尔·沙普尔斯表示，输家是仅在线上经营的零售商，尤其是那些规模较小的商家。