By using stale metaphors, similes, and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague.

使用陈腐的暗喻、明喻和习语，你省了不少思考的力气，代价是你的意义的模糊。

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Though possible in theory, the cost and effort of doing so makes this unfeasible in practice.

虽然这个方法理论上可行，但是其成本和代价使其在实际操作中难以实施。

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For example, the cost, effort, and duration of a project are at best educated guesses.

例如，最好也不过是有根据地推测项目的成本、工作及持续时间。

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"And so the question is, even if it is real successful, is it worth the cost and effort and money and so forth?

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At the margin, I'm reaping, I'm bearing the cost for the extra unit of effort I contribute, but I'm only reaping half of the induced profits of the firm, because of profit sharing.

从边际角度分析,我承担了多付出的全部边际成本,但我却只能得到一半的边际收益,因为利润是均分的

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This is the effort cost. Similarly, player II, everything's symmetric here Player II's payoff is the same thing.

这是她的努力成本,由对称可得,参与人II的收益是一样的

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For disposable technology, the added cost and effort might not have as much value.

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With the cost and effort of stealing them, you wonder why they bother.

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And, that all their remaining economic problems could be solved, without cost or effort, by monetary manipulation, in time for the next election.

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