第170句 成本下降
If，on the other hand，producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product.
译文：
另一方面，如果某种产品大量生产导致其成本下降，那么就有可能增加卖方和制造商的供给，而这也就会反过来降低价格并允许更多的消费者购买产品。
点睛：
本句是个复合句：If... producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost是条件状语从句；主句是this will tend to increase the supply…，分词结构offered by seller-producers作supply的后置定语，其后跟有一个非限定性定语从句which in tum will lower...to buy the product，其中which指代它前面的整个主句的内容。注意句中代词的指代含义：its指代的是commodity+s，而主句的主语this指代整个状语从句。result in是“导致”的意思，没有被动语态。
考点归纳：
下列短语也有“导致”的意思。
to lead to，to bring about/on，to cause，to spark off，to induce，to generate
例如：
Excessive patriotism can lead to xenophobia.
过分的爱国主义可导致仇视一切外国人。
What sparked off the quarrel?
什么导致了争吵？
A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
友谊的主要效用之一就是使人心中的愤懑抑郁之气得以宣泄释放，这些不平之气是各种的情感都可以引起的。