This is not just theory; it is a lesson we learned, at great expense, during the Savings and Loan crisis of the 1980s.
这不只是理论；它是我们经历了1980年代的储贷危机以巨大的代价所习得的教益。
But microprocessors were seen as highly specialised - designed at great expense only to be used by a few manufacturers in a handful of machines.
与之相比，微处理器是高度定制化的——其设计本身很昂贵，并且仅仅适用于部分制造商的部分产品。
Museums have raised historic aircraft from salt water in good condition and at great expense only to see them crumble to white powder in a matter of months.
博物馆，咸水状况良好。
But facts have proved that sending children to a famous school at great expense is not always a wise choice.
但是，事实已经证明，花昂贵的费用把孩子送到名校并非总是明智的选择。
Plan for win-win success. Great business relationships occur when both parties succeed. If you expand your business at the expense of a customer, you eventually lose that customer.
成功的商业关系会让双方都能从中获益，如果你以损害客户的利益为代价来扩展业务，那你终将失去这个客户。
The building is aging-and not gracefully. Structural elements like a roof or plumbing system may need replacing at great expense to the owner.
您的房子太老了，也不好看。屋顶和管道都要花很多钱去更换。
The process pumps in pulp and paper mill are often out of order, their inefficient operation is at the expense of a great deal of maintenance cost and production.
制浆造纸厂使用的造纸过程泵发生故障的现象几乎很普遍，人们通常采用被动检修的方法来维持其低效的运转，这是以很高的维修费用和停机损失做为代价的。
Historians have given as one of the reasons the great expense of large-scale expeditions at a time of preoccupation with northern defenses against the Mongols.
历史学家给出的理由就是，海上探险需要大量的开支，而当时的当务之急就是抵御蒙古人的入侵。
His new argument, in a nutshell, amounts to a frontal attack on long-accepted ideas about one of the great mysteries of evolution: why one creature would ever help another at its own expense.
他的论证，概括说来，是证明批评一个被接受了很久的、关于进化论之谜的观念：为什么一头动物会牺牲自己帮助其他动物。
His new argument, in a nutshell, amounts to a frontal attack on long-accepted ideas about one of the great mysteries of evolution: why one creature would ever help another at its own expense.
他的论证，概括说来，是证明批评一个被接受了很久的、关于进化论之谜的观念：为什么一头动物会牺牲自己帮助其他动物。
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