Her fame was bought at the expense of her marriage.
她出了名，却牺牲了她的婚姻。
The orchestra has more discipline now, but at the expense of spirit.
该管弦乐队现在更有纪律了，但却牺牲了士气。
It is wrong to aim at sheer quantity at the expense of quality.
片面地追求数量而牺牲质量是错误的。
People do it at the expense of everything that was a constant in their lives.
人们这样做的代价是牺牲生活中所有一尘不变的东西。
They may want to know that the product they're buying hasn't been made at the expense of the people who are producing it, whether it's in this country or abroad.
他们可能想知道他们购买的产品是否以生产人员的利益为代价，不管是本国的还是国外的。
Therefore, a begging nestling that secures food at the expense of its siblings might actually leave behind fewer copies of its genes overall than it might otherwise.
因此，一只以其兄弟姐妹为代价来获取食物的乞食雏鸟实际上可能会比其它雏鸟留下更少的基因副本。
He built up the business at the expense of his health.
他以自己的健康为代价逐步建立起这个企业。
The owner is making huge profits at the expense of downtrodden peasants.
物主靠压榨农民而赢得暴利。
According to this study, women have made notable gains at the expense of men.
根据这项研究，女性以牺牲男性的利益为代价而取得了显著收益。
Democrats will complain he overemphasizes punishment at the expense of prevention and treatment.
民主党人会抱怨他过分强调了惩罚，而忽略了预防和处理。
Ford has been gaining market share this year at the expense of GM and some Japanese car manufacturers.
福特公司今年一直在扩大自己的市场份额，这导致通用公司和一些日本汽车制造商市场份额减少。
Studies are really very important, but never at the expense of students' physical and mental well-being.
学习真的很重要，但绝不能以牺牲学生的身体和心理健康为代价。
Too often when you stand up to give a speech, you focus on the "public" at the expense of the "speaking".
当你站起来演讲时，你常常会以牺牲“演讲”为代价去关注“公众”。
Instead, I agree with Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom, who believes that the heaviest risks from AGI do not come from a decision to turn against mankind but rather from a dogged pursuit of set objectives at the expense of everything else.
相反，我同意牛津大学哲学家尼克·博斯特罗姆的观点。他认为，AGI 最大的风险并非源自它违反人类的决定，而是源自其不惜一切代价对既定目标的执着追求。
Both these criteria would be at the expense of time.
这两个标准都将以时间为代价。
This comes at the expense of increased performance overhead.
这是以增加的性能开销为代价的。
In other cases the discounts are given at the expense, directly or indirectly, of younger Americans.
在其他情况下，折扣是直接或间接地由美国年轻人支付的。
While climate is a key element, Moritz says, it shouldn't come at the expense of the rest of the equation.
莫里茨说，虽然气候是一个关键因素，但不应该以牺牲其他因素为代价。
The technical institutions are going to be increasingly popular at the expense of traditional universities.
技术院校将会越来越受欢迎，而传统大学的受欢迎程度将会下降。
Peter the Great expands territory beyond the Euro mountains along the Caspian Sea at the expense of the Turks.
彼得大帝越过欧洲山脉，沿着里海扩张领土，牺牲了土耳其人的利益。
They often sensationalise news stories, glamorizing the lives of the rich and the famous at the expense of real news stories such as war and famine.
他们经常炒作新闻故事：美化富人和名人的生活，而牺牲了真实的新闻故事，如战争和饥荒。
Parasitism is a kind of predator-prey relationship in which one organism, the parasite, derives its food at the expense of its symbiotic associate, the host.
寄生是一种捕食者与被捕食者之间的关系，寄生者利用共生伙伴——宿主来获取食物。
We do not doubt that teachers who also coach face serious tradeoffs that likely come at the expense of time they could dedicate to their academic obligations.
我们不怀疑，同时兼任教练的教师也面临着严肃的权衡，也许是以牺牲时间为代价，他们原本可以把这些时间用于完成学术义务。
The Roosevelt Administration believed that rebuilding the nation's soil was in the national interest and was not simply a plan to help farmers at the expense of other citizens.
罗斯福政府认为，恢复国有土地是符合国家利益的，也不只是一个牺牲其他公民的利益来帮助农民的计划。
Consumer protection groups and parents believe that children are largely ill-equipped to recognize such techniques and that often exaggeration is used at the expense of product information.
消费者保护组织和家长们认为，孩子们在很大程度上没有足够的能力来识别这些技术，而且经常以牺牲产品信息为代价来夸大其词。
The highest CEO salaries are paid to outside candidates, not to the cozy insider picks, another sign that high CEO pay is not some kind of depredation at the expense of the rest of the company.
最高级的CEO薪酬是支付给外部候选人的，而不是内部人选。这再次表明，高级 CEO的薪酬并不是以牺牲公司其他员工为代价的掠夺。
"There seems to be a predominance of short-term thinking at the expense of long-term investing," said Commissioner Daniel Gallagher of the US Securities and Exchange Commission in a speech this week.
本周，美国证交会委员丹尼尔·加拉格尔在一次演讲中表示：“短线思维似乎已占据主导地位 ，其代价是长期投资受损。”
Don't stress minor issues at the expense of the central task.
不要因次要问题而冲淡了中心任务。
Prolonging life at the expense of its quality can rob elderly people of meaningful years, Muriel Gillick tells Les Olson.
穆里尔·克里克对雷·奥尔森说，毫无质量可言地延长生命，无异于使老年人失去了最后几年有意义的生活。
Slowly, dads evolved at the expense of cads.
慢慢地，“爸爸”们以牺牲风流本性为代价进化了。
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