In February,Senator Lamar Alexander warned higher education leaders that they risk rejection unless they lower the cost of attending college.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

So it's really the upfront cost to move to this, in terms of classroom space and developing pedagogy, and buying us top experiments.

因此搬到这种教室,才是最主要的花费，其中包括教室空间设置,开发教学模式，购买高级实验设备等。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

just because they need to recoup that cost, which, in a lot of cases, seems unfortunate.

因为他们要补偿那部分花费，很多情况下这似乎很不幸。

广告和价格的关系 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Probably,for a one-hundred-fifty-thousand-dollar- a-year employee it would cost me in the range of ten to fifteen thousand dollars."

VOA: special.2011.05.13

In terms of cost to institute this, the upfront cost to build classrooms, to accommodate this kind of structure, we need two classrooms that hold 170 students a piece to do this.

关于建这个项目的成本，最主要的就是搭建教室，使之适应这种教学模式，我们需要两间能装170人,的教室来上这种课。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Judge Wright says the cost of gathering lots of scientific evidence can limit the use in real-life trials.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

In terms of the benefits of the spoils of government versus the cost of running, it's a wash for Claire Elise, whether she enters or not.

从利益角度来看,政府的奖励对参选的成本,对克莱尔·伊莉斯来说它是零,无论她参不参选

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But now a program called Kilimo Salama, or safe farming, offers low-cost insurance in parts of Kenya.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

Needless to say, when this memo of the Ford Motor Company's cost-benefit analysis came out in the trial, it appalled the jurors, who awarded a huge settlement.

不用说，当福特汽车公司的这份成本效益分析备忘录,在审理时被公之于众，陪审团大为震怒，判定巨额赔偿。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Since November the stories about his private life have cost him millions of dollars in product deals.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

What's distinctive about the South: "The South has a tradition," Said Gurganus, "Of attempting the impossible at great cost, proudly celebrating the failure, and in gaining admiration for the performance."

写的是南方的独特之处,"南方有种传统",古尔加努斯说,"付出巨大的代价挑战命运,即便失败仍非常自豪,并因此而为他人所尊敬"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The private-public partnerships are designed to increase the availability of low cost vaccines in poor areas.

VOA: special.2010.03.29

But then I ask them to think, and in the book I ask the readers to think: Well, have you given a cost of an expensive pair of shoes to save the life of one of the around 9 million children who are dying from poverty related causes each year around the world?

但是，接着我让他们思考，在书中，我让读者思考这样一个问题：,你有没有捐出过买一双鞋的钱,来拯救900万儿童中的一个生命？,他可能正因为贫困导致的种种问题,而生命垂危，每年世界上都会有这样的儿童？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Last April, Australia's Productivity Commission considered the cost of bullying in a report on workplace safety.

VOA: special.2011.03.25

In addition, this is just the cost of the vaccine, not the cost of the doctor or nurse who injects it into, you so you have to figure that cost in as well.

另外,这个仅是疫苗本身的成本,还没算上医生或者护士的成本,所以你还得同时考虑这些成本

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

On Wednesday, thousands of public employees in Greece held a strike to protest cost-cutting measures.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

Let me mention a few administration economic proposals, all couched in terms of controlling cost and spurring growth, all linked in one way or another to the economic crisis that was started during the housing bust.

让我们谈谈,政府的一些经济策略，全都归于,控制成本和刺激增长的名下，全部都与,金融危机有关,都是在房产市场萧条时出台的。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

An investigation showed that leading members of Congress, and even the Vice President, received shares of ownership in the company for free, or at low cost.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Now we're doing the same for IT, using standards, taking things that are in what's this big bucket known as services and really encapsulating them in the form of services and products, but in a much more cost-effective way, using standards.

现在对于整个信息技术行业我们也采取这种方法，使用标准,通过服务,注入产品和服务，通过标准，提高成本效率。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

"While cost remains a major factor in decisions about where to off-source, the quality of the labor pool is gaining importance, and this includes English language skills."

VOA: special.2011.01.21

But on the other hand these advances have also come at a cost. And in this story there's also a sense of longing for the freedom of life in the wild--the innocent, simple, uncomplicated life lived day to day without plans, without toil, in harmony with nature Edenic a somewhat Edenic existence.

但是，换个角度来看，人类付出了代价,才得到这些优点，在这部史诗中，同样存在着,对一种纯真，简单，纯粹生活的向往,每天生活中没有计划，辛劳，与自然和平相处,就像以前的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The cost of goods was lower when bought in large amounts.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

So, the optimal thing to do if you live in a world like this n is to get n as large possible and you can reduce the standard deviation of the portfolio very much and there's no cost in terms of expected return.

如果现实中也这样简单的话,那么你就尽量增大,这样就能让投资组合的标准差,就会大大降低,从预期收益率的角度来看,这样做的成本是零。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The cost of the test is set locally in each country.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Once I have it sorted I can search it in log n time, but that's still isn't as good as just doing n. And this led to this idea of amortization, which is I need to not only factor in the cost, but how am I going to use it?

一旦对其完成排序,就可以在log，n的时间内对其完成搜索,但是这样做仍然不如n的复杂度,这样做引出了耗时分摊的想法,这时不仅需要考虑耗时的因素？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In 1835, a barrel of flour cost 6 dollars.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

So in particular, I need to tell you what is the cost of production.

譬如说大家要知道生产成本怎么计算

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"We believe that,long term, Mexico is going to be a wonderful opportunity for retirees to live,the cost of medical services and health-related issues, but also the overall cost of living in Mexico is far lower."

VOA: special.2011.06.13

They commissioned a study, a cost-benefit analysis of smoking in the Czech Republic, and what their cost-benefit analysis found was the government gains by having Czech citizens smoke.

他们资助了一项研究，进行在捷克吸烟的成本效益分析，分析结果显示,让捷克人民吸烟，能让政府获利。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And the cost of production in this game is simply going to be cq.

在这个博弈里生产成本就是c*q

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选