In December of 1869, Congress appointed a commission to select a site and prepare plans and cost estimates for a new State Department Building.

在1869年12月，国会任命了一个委员会来为新的国务院大楼选择地点、制订计划、估算成本。

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The gap between the cost of building a phone and its price in the shops should widen further as previously components are packed onto a single main microchip.

制造一部手机的成本和它在商店里的价格之间的差距应该会进一步扩大，因为以前元件被封装在一个主芯片上。

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American settlers in those years had to ship most of their building materials and furniture from England, at great trouble, cost and uncertainty.

在那些年里，美国定居者得从英国航运他们的建筑材料和家具，不仅很麻烦，而且花费大，不确定因素也多。

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Some mobile operators that are running both Wi-Fi networks and 3G networks say the cost of building more capacity in the Wi-Fi network is only 10% of the cost to do so in the 3G network.

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Or, envision an easy-to-use software package that lets a building owner perform virtual energy audits at a fraction of the cost of in-person audits, so real savings are calculated instantly, building upgrades launched sooner, and construction jobs created faster.

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They only paid for the computing power they used, avoiding the cost and resource burden of building infrastructure in-house.

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