If another substitute method is not devised, starting this year the price of each computer will go up by more than six US dollars in taxes. For the computer industry, where price competition had already cut profits to the bone, this is like "frost on top of snow."
如果不另想替代方法，今年起，一部電腦就將課高達六美元多的稅，對已因削價競爭而利潤微薄的電腦業來說，實在是雪上加霜。