commercially viable

British Aerospace reckon that the plane will be commercially viable if 400 can be sold.

英国航空航天公司估计这个型号的飞机如果能卖出400架，就可实现盈利。

Futurists always emphasise technology breakthroughs, and many will predict a commercially viable "tipping-point" for electronic books such as Amazon's Kindle.

未来主义者一直期待着技术上的突破，他们中的部分人预言触摸式的电子书（如亚马逊的Kindle）将进入实质性的商业运作阶段。

The technique likely is a long way from being commercially viable. But it highlights the potential of DNA as a stable, long-term archive for ordinary information, such as photographs, books, financial records, medical files and videos, all of which today are stored as computer code.

这种技术距商业化应用可能还有很长一段距离，但它凸显出DNA可稳定、长久地存储普通信息（如照片、书籍、财务记录、医疗档案和视频）的潜力，这些资料目前都以计算机编码的方式存储。

Creating an alternative green or carbon neutral fuel to replace gasoline has been the holy grail for scientists for many years. However, while there has been some progress with inventions like electric batteries and biofuel, most options are either too expensive or not commercially viable to compete effectively with the fossil fuel.

研究出环保且碳中性的燃料来代替汽油，一直被看做是科学界的圣杯。然而，虽然最近在蓄电池和生物燃料领域有些许进步，有些原材料还是因为过于昂贵或者不具商业价值，难敌化石燃料。

Production based on the new method can start at the firm's plant in Sas van Gent in 2009, though it will take longer for most of the new feedstocks to become commercially viable.

这项新的生产工艺将会从2009年开始在该公司位于萨斯范根特市的工厂内投入使用，但若想让大象粪便能够得到大规模的商业利用则还需要更长一些的时间。

For the English edition, making it commercially viable is also the first priority.

对英文版来说，使它在商业上可行也是头等大事。

If the project succeeds, and the renamed Fairmont peace hotel becomes a commercially viable property, it could encourage more preservation of old Shanghai, according to local restoration experts.

当地修建专家表示，如果项目取得成功，更名后的费尔蒙和平饭店（fairmont peace hotel）具备商业可行性，可能会鼓励人们进一步保护旧上海风貌。

Expand energy access through economic statecraft and partnerships with development agencies to help encourage creation of commercially viable models backed by private investment.

通过经济治国方略和与发展事务机构结成伙伴关系，鼓励建立得到民间投资支持的可行商业模式，拓宽获得能源的渠道。

to be commercially/politically/financially/economically viable

在商业上 / 政治上 / 财政上 / 经济上可行

Engineers are still trying to come up with a commercially viable replacement for internal-combustion engines.

工程师在设法制造一种在商业上切实可行的发动机来取代内燃机.