Cost,including transportation, may decide the success of the new technology.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

As a result of the Freedom Rides, they had integrated interstate transportation, at great cost to the volunteers who rode those buses.

作为自由乘车运动的结果，州际间的交通被大大集中，不过这使那些乘坐巴士的志愿者们付出了极大的代价。

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One was the high cost of transportation.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Students must not only pay the normal university course tuition, but they must cover the cost for airfare,local transportation, housing,food,tickets and, of course,souvenirs.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

The U.S.military is buying more than 6,000 of the M-ATVs, at a cost of nearly a million and a half dollars each, including all their equipment, spare parts and transportation to Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

"We must keep in mind how even apparently unsuccessful attacks on Western mass transportation systems can bring major cities to a halt, cost the enemy billions and send his corporations into bankruptcy."

VOA: standard.2010.04.01