Atomic implies indivisibility and irreducibility, so an atomic operation must be performed entirely or not performed at all.

这里“原子”意思是看见分，因此原子操作要必须全部做，要一点也做。

Considerable attention has been given to imperfections of information and of competition, to transaction costs, indivisibilities, and increasing returns, and to some of the relations among these.

而大量关注集中在信息善、竞争善、交易成本、分割性、递增收益、以及它们之间一些关系。