the high/low cost of housing
住宅的高昂 / 低廉費用
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A new computer system has been installed at a cost of £80 000.
新的計算機系統(tǒng)已安裝,費用為8萬英鎊。
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The plan had to be abandoned on grounds of cost.
由于經(jīng)費的原因此項計劃被迫放棄。
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We did not even make enough money to cover the cost of the food.
我們掙的錢甚至無法糊口。
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Consumers will have to bear the full cost of these pay increases.
消費者將不得不承擔(dān)增加工資所需的全部費用。
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The total cost to you (= the amount you have to pay) is £3 000.
你總共要支付3 000英鎊。
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The use of cheap labour helped to keep costs down.
使用廉價勞動力有助于降低成本。
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The increase will hurt small business and cost many thousands of jobs.
這種增長會使小企業(yè)受損并使成千上萬的人失去工作。
They told Jacques Delors a disastrous world trade war must be avoided at all costs.
他們告訴雅克·德洛爾必須不惜任何代價避免一場毀滅性的世界貿(mào)易戰(zhàn)。
This book is of such importance that it must be published at any cost...
這本書非常重要,無論如何也要出版。
He ordered the army to recapture the camp at any cost.
他命令軍隊無論如何也要奪回營地。
Several countries in eastern Europe are counting the cost of yesterday's earthquake...
東歐的幾個國家正在計算昨天的地震帶來的損失。
Many people act on impulse without counting the cost.
很多人不考慮后果就莽撞行事。
Well-designed clothes cost money.
設(shè)計精美的服裝價格昂貴。
Kathryn knows to her cost the effect of having served a jail sentence...
凱瑟琳吃了苦頭才知道服過刑會給一個人帶來什么影響。
There are very few people he can talk to in total confidence, as he has discovered to his cost.
他吃了虧后才發(fā)現(xiàn)自己真正能夠交心的人寥寥無幾。
...a six-year-old boy whose life was saved by an operation that cost him his sight...
手術(shù)救了一名6歲男孩的命,卻使他失明了
...being so afraid of something that you feel you have to avoid it whatever the cost to your lifestyle.
如此地害怕某事覺得必須避開它,無論自己的生活方式因此受到怎樣的影響都在所不惜
The cost of a loaf of bread has increased five-fold...
一條面包的價錢增長了4倍。
In 1989 the price of coffee fell so low that in many countries it did not even cover the cost of production...
1989年咖啡的價格跌至低谷,在很多國家甚至連生產(chǎn)成本都收不回來。
This course is limited to 12 people and costs £50...
該課程只招收12人,學(xué)費為50英鎊。
Painted walls look much more interesting and doesn't cost much...
彩繪墻壁看上去更有趣而且花費也不高。
Costs have been cut by 30 to 50 per cent...
成本降低了30%到50%。
Everything that goes into making a programme, staff, rent, lighting, is now costed.
制作節(jié)目的所有成本:人工、租用場地、燈光現(xiàn)在都已經(jīng)估算了。
...seventy apartments, shops, offices, a restaurant and hotel, costed at around 10 million pounds.
估價約為1,000萬英鎊的70套公寓、店鋪、辦公室、一家大飯店
He was jailed for 18 months and ordered to pay £550 costs.
他被監(jiān)禁了18個月,還責(zé)令他支付550英鎊的訴訟費。
...a store that provided cigarettes and candy bars at cost.
按成本價出售香煙和糖果的商店
...a practice known as dumping – that is, selling below cost to drive competition out of business.
傾銷行為——即通過以低于成本的價格銷售產(chǎn)品來擠垮競爭對手
In March Mr Salinas shut down the city's oil refinery at a cost of $500 million and 5,000 jobs.
3月份,薩利納斯先生關(guān)閉了該市的煉油場,造成5億美元的損失,并使5,000人失去了工作。
Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文The cost for saving our civilization would be considerably less than the world's current military spending.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文The concept has multiple forms, and scholars and policymakers argue about the shape, scope and cost of the ideal program.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文For many in the development community, the four objectives were seen as positive, promoting development as long as they did not cost too much.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文Manufacturers can produce consumer goods at a much lower cost.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文Facing an 8.3-billion-dollar budget deficit this year, closing post offices is one of several proposals the Postal Service has put forth recently to cut costs.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文A part-time job is a good way to balance costs while ensuring there is enough time left over?for both academic subjects and after-class activities.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文To help quantify the costs of a poor diet, I recently tried to estimate this impact in terms of a most famous food, the burger .
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文ConAgra’s Research and Development staff spent a year working under the instruction: whatever the cost, don’t sacrifice taste.
出自-2015年12月聽力原文But the code to access the program cost $120—a big sum for Harper, who had already put down $450 for textbooks, and had rent day approaching.
2018年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section BBut this can be chalked up to the excessively high cost of their books—which has increased over 1, 000 percent since 1977.
2019年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section CChanging building codes, evolving tastes, and the high cost of maintaining those wonderful old signs have businesses embracing LEDs, which are energy efficient, but still carry great cost.
2018年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section AConAgra's Research and Development staff spent a year working under the instruction: whatever the cost, don't sacrifice taste.
2015年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section CEven when they stay on the right side of the law, Internet providers arouse customers' anger over bandwidth speed and cost.
2017年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section AHe has a lot of experience with boats, and it'll work out a lot cheaper to hire one if there's more of us to share the cost.
2017年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section BIf I stayed in the U.S., it'd take two years and cost at least 50,000 dollars in tuition alone.
2019年6月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section BIn 2018 alone, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, mudslides, and other natural disasters cost at least $49 billion in the United States.
2019年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section BOn the other hand, imagine the cost savings for local police enforcement and town budgets without all those speeding and parking tickets.
2018年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section CThe aircraft cost 25 million pounds and can carry heavier loads than huge jet planes while also producing less noise and emitting less pollution.
2018年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section AThis help is critically important because the high cost of caring for animal victims is a major factor that prevents people from getting involved in cruelty cases in the first place.
2016年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section AThis means that some wells may even need to undergo desalination after extraction, thus increasing the cost.
2018年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section CThis will cover the cost of making all 12 shows in the first season for the first year.
2019年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section BWhile alternative estimates of the damage from carbon emissions differ, and it's especially hard to reckon the likely costs of possible catastrophic climate events, most estimates suggest substantial negative effects.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文These math circles cost nothing, or they're very cheap for students to get involved in, but you have to know about them, said Rusczyk.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文Students use forums to chat, play games, and solve problems together at no cost, or they can pay a few hundred dollars to take courses with trained teachers.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文Some are pricey—a three-week intensive program can cost $4,500 or more—but most offer scholarships.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文Setting the right carbon price will therefore efficiently align the costs paid by carbon users with the true social opportunity cost of using carbon.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文It is urgent for governments to increase the cost of using fossil fuels to an appropriate level to lessen the catastrophic effects of climate change.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文Facilities management by colleges is more cost-effective.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral costs.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system—doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness—is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs, are treated properly.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文The high cost of medical services and unnecessary tests and treatments have driven up medical expenses.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文The good news is that a bill just approved by the House and a bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee would implement or test many reforms that should help slow the rise in medical costs over the long term.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文The average budget for a major kitchen overhaul in 2006, calculates Remodeling magazine, was a staggering $54,000; even a minor improvement cost on average $18,000.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文The answer is that no one has an easy fix for rising medical costs.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文The Senate Finance bill would impose an excise tax on health insurance plans that cost more than $8,000 for an individual or $21,000 for a family.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文Poor countries will have to bear the cost for rich nations' economic development.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文Missing from these bills is any serious attempt to rein in malpractice costs.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文It is not easy to curb the rising medical costs in America.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文In time it should help restrain costs by eliminating redundant tests, preventing drug interactions, and helping doctors find the best treatments.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文If private plans demanded similar productivity savings from providers, and refused to let providers shift additional costs to them, the savings could be much larger.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson&Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian-style one which would cost £145,000-155,000— excluding building, plumbing and electrical work.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文Americans are deeply concerned about the relentless rise in health care costs and health insurance premiums.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate free-riders: causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while incurring few of the costs such as climate change's impact on food and water.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文The solution: set priorities—add up the annual cost of each item, then consider what else you could buy with the same money.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文One Chicago woman, for example, discovered that daily lunches with coworkers cost her 2,000 dollars a year.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文While that may make suborbital travel safer, it would add significant cost and complexity to an emerging industry that has until now operated largely as the playground of billionaires and dreamy engineers.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文They have to operate for long periods of time before the costs of development have been recovered.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文Take costs into account when making treatment decisions.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文Some analysts say that there's a role for doctors to play in cost analysis because not many others are doing so.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文Saying they can no longer ignore the rising prices of health care, some of the most influential medical groups in the nation are recommending that doctors weigh the costs, not just the effectiveness of treatments, as they make decisions about patient care.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文Like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文In the extreme, some critics have said that making treatment decisions based on cost is a form of rationing.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文In practical terms, the new guidelines being develop could result in doctors choosing one drug over another for cost reasons or even deciding that a particular treatment — at the end of life, for example — is too expensive.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文But one costs $50 a dose and the other close to $2,000.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文"The sun provides the lowest cost of production and the cheapest meat," he says.
2019年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B"These math circles cost nothing, or they're very cheap for students to get involved in, but you have to know about them," said Rusczyk.
2017年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section Band some parents say they can manage the cost of a school trip abroad more easily than a family holiday.
2019年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section CBut Smith counters that if you factor in the hidden cost of government corn subsidies, environment degradation, and decreased human heath and animal welfare, grass-fed is the more cost-effective model.
2019年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section BEither a college major is worth its cost or it isn't.
2018年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section CExclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson&Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian style one which would cost £145,000-155,000—excluding building, plumbing and electrical w
2016年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section CFor instance, a research group here at Arizona State University recently claimed their developmental small CubeSats could cost as little as $3, 000 to put in orbit.
2019年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section BFor instance, there's a high energy cost in switching from a regular metabolism to an almost-no-water metabolism.
2018年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section BHowever, as the cost of getting your own satellite in orbit drops sharply, the risks of irresponsible use grow.
2019年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section BIf taxpayers are to bear the cost of forgiving student loans, shouldn't they have a say in how their money is used?
2018年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section CIn fact, cost sharing could be a very practical solution, especially in times of financial difficulty.
2016年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section CIn the extreme, some critics have said that making treatment decisions based on cost is a form of rationing .
2015年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section CIt has consequences: South Africa's ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its com crop this year.
2018年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section BMaybe you see low customer participation at first, or conversely, so much success that the cost of recycling becomes too high.
2019年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section BNow, the only apparent cost to taking infinite photos of something as common as a meal is the space on your hard drive and your dining companion's patience.
2018年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section COne should buy the policies to give the most protection at the least cost, ensure the right family members and consider the family's financial needs.
2017年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section CSome are pricey—a three-week intensive program can cost $4, 500 or more—but most offer scholarships.
2017年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section BStill, some analysts say that there's a role for doctors to play in cost analysis because not many others are doing so.
2015年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section CStress is taking a significant toll on our health, and the collective public health cost may be enormous.
2016年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section BThe average budget for a "major" kitchen overhaul in 2006, calculates Remodeling magazine, was a staggering $54, 000; even a "minor" improvement cost on average$18, 000.
2016年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section CThe biggest and most exciting challenge of this technology is how to creatively leverage this ever-growing amount of data to deliver cost savings, improvements and tangible benefits to both businesses and citizens of these smart cities.
2017年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section CThe reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal c
2017年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section BThe Senate finance bill would impose an excise tax(消費稅) on health insurance plans that cost more than $8, 000 for an individual or $21, 000 for a family.
2016年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section BThey include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs
2016年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section BThis decrease in cost allows researchers, hobbyists and even elementary school groups to put simple instruments into LEO or even having them deployed from the ISS.
2019年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section Bvirtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system— doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness — is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.
2016年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section BYet, she noted, many young people are especially unwilling to take risks at school—afraid that one low test score or poor grade could cost them a spot at a selective university.
2018年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section BA cup of coffee costs about three dollars and fifty cents, but the fun is free.
2015年高考英語上海卷 聽力 原文After having taught fifth-grade classes for four years, I decided to try all costs to rid them of their fear and dislike of books, and to get them to read oftener and more adventurously.
2015年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文Callie Babbitt and her colleagues at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York tracked the environmental costs for each product throughout its life – from when its minerals are mined to when we stop using the device.
2018年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文Many studies show that older parents—today's grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.
2015年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文From the governments' point of view, a primary goal of laws requiring extended producer responsibility is to transfer both the cost and the physical responsibility of waste management from the government and tax-payers back to the producers.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文How much does the t-shirt normally cost?
2015年高考英語湖南卷 聽力 題設(shè)I have $20, 000 now, and the car costs $25, 000.
2017年高考英語全國卷2 聽力 原文In a society that tends to measure everything in terms of dollars and cents, we learn form a young age to consider the costs of our decisions in financial terms.
2015年高考英語浙江卷 完形填空 原文It costs 150 dollars, and you can drive straight from the airport to your house.
2017年高考英語北京卷 聽力 原文It costs a large amount of money.
2015年高考英語湖北卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 選項It's expected to cost $279, 000.
2017年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文More broadly the Wakefield survey suggests that employers may be missing a low-cost way to give workers something of value.
2016年高考英語浙江卷(10月) 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文My trip to the repair shop cost me $62, and the sit is working well now, but I keep expecting more trouble.
2015年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文Or, maybe all I would find was absolutely nothing! But something inside me was going to climb that mountain at all cost.
2018年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀表達 原文Researchers from georgia tech say that they have come up with a low-cost device裝置that gets around this problem: a smart keyboard.
2019年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文So by increasing their song output, there might be some costs of energy.
2015年高考英語四川卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文The basket cost more than she had saved.
2016年高考英語浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項The cost of adaptation varies with time.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項The cost to repair it was estimated at $800.
2016年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文The disadvantages of large human brains·the larger brains may not be better because of the cost.
2019年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 任務(wù)型閱讀 題設(shè)The first commercially available driverless cars will almost certainly be fielded by ride-hailing services, considering the cost of self-driving technology as well as liability and maintenance issues.
2018年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文The industry cost might be increased.
2015年高考英語四川卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項There could be an even higher cost on your health.
2018年高考英語浙江卷 語法填空 原文They can purchase shade-grown coffee whenever possible, although at a higher cost.
2015年高考英語陜西卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文They cost more to use at home.
2018年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項They made reservations at restaurants where the cost of a bottle of wine equaled a college year's monthly rent.
2015年高考英語浙江卷 完形填空 原文This brief visit with mother nature cost me two days off from work, recovering from a bad case of sunburn and the doctor's bill for my son's food poisoning.
2017年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 七選五 原文While regularly eating out seems to have become common for many young people in recent years, it's not without a cost.
2018年高考英語浙江卷 語法填空 原文As the cost to everyone else has become clearer, politicians have begun to clamp down.
出自-2012年考研閱讀原文The other reason why costs are so high is the restrictive guild-like ownership structure of the business.
出自-2014年考研閱讀原文One is the excessive costs of a legal education.
出自-2014年考研閱讀原文In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms’ efficiency.
出自-2014年考研閱讀原文Getting the print edition seven days a week costs $500 a year—more than twice as much as a digital-only subscription.
出自-2016年考研閱讀原文But Congress should look into doing so directly, by helping to finance PreCheck enrollment or to cut costs in other ways.
出自-2017年考研閱讀原文There's no change to collective bargaining at the USPS, a major omission considering that personnel accounts for 80 percent of the agency's costs.
出自-2018年考研閱讀原文Meanwhile, it has more than $120 billion in unfunded liabilities, mostly for employee health and retirement costs.
出自-2018年考研閱讀原文In December of 1869, Congress appointed a commission to select a site and prepare plans and cost estimates for a new State Department Building.
出自-2018年考研閱讀原文It cost less than a fiver but she was overjoyed, and couldn't stop talking about it.
2016年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section ⅡStop laughing: It's not just cost effective but helps you balance your diet.
2013年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section ⅡThe cost of solar panels has dropped by 80 percent and the cost of wind turbines by close to one-third in the past eight years.
2018年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section ⅡThe Supreme Court's opinion Thursday overruled a pair of decades-old decisions that states said cost them billions of dollars in lost revenue annually.
2020年考研真題(英語一)翻譯 Section ⅢThis might mean implementing policy such as a plastic tax that adds a cost to environmentally problematic action, or banning single-use plastics altogether.
2019年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ"the fluctuating monetary value of gold and silver"
"he puts a high price on his services"
"he couldn't calculate the cost of the collection"
"the cost in human life was enormous"
"the price of success is hard work"
"what price glory?"
"These shoes cost $100"
"This mistake cost him his job"
這些名詞均有"價格,費用"之意。