This is a rather expensive laptop.
这台手提电脑确实有点贵。
Henry: Oh sure, but Ollie's a rather expensive drinking companion.
亨利：愉快啊，但和奥利喝酒，花费不少。
Unfortunately to start playing with this chip you need to buy a rather expensive development kit.
不幸的是，如果决定使用这块芯片开发，你不得不购买非常昂贵的开发套件。
My husband and I had agreed not to get each other presents this year, having just purchased a rather expensive household item.
今年我和丈夫本已达成一致不给对方准备礼物了，因为我们新买了一个相当昂贵的家居用品。
Generating enough light could be prohibitively expensive, unless cheap, renewable energy is available, and this appears to be rather a future aspiration than a likelihood for the near future.
除非有廉价可再生能源，否则制造足够光的成本可能会高得令人望而却步，而这似乎只是未来的愿望而非近期能实现的。
Rather than bankroll expensive projects, some financial firms are offering their employees’ billable time, reflecting a broader corporate trend.
一些金融公司给他们的员工提供的是计费时间，而不是资金昂贵的学习项目，这代表了一种更广泛的企业趋势。
That might sound rather expensive, especially to a free tools maven like myself.
这听起来可能有些贵，尤其是对于像我这样的免费工具热爱者来说就更是如此。
This rather runs against the conventional narrative - that an expensive college education and a good degree are essential prerequisites for success.
这违背了传统的叙事-就是昂贵的大学教育和良好的学位是成功的关键先决条件。
By making a view, rather than an explicit table, we avoid the main disadvantage of a vertical schema, namely that many queries require it to be joined with itself, which can be expensive.
通过定义视图而不是显式的表，可以避免垂直模式的主要缺点，即许多查询要求它与本身进行联结，而这种操作是很昂贵的。
These drugs should be a focus of cancer treatment programmes, rather than expensive on-patent drugs.
治疗计划应尽量考虑使用这样的药物，而不是那些天价专利药品。
Rather than run a big, expensive study, it's a better use of resources to run many small tests and revise the design between each one so you can fix the usability flaws as you identify them.
比起大型昂贵的研究，善用好资源去进行许多小的测试和在每个测试之后迭代设计，你可以根据发现的可用性问题去改善它。
These capabilities enable a business to perform the redesign themselves, rather than having to hire expensive consultants.
通过这些功能，业务部门就能自己进行重新设计，而不用雇请收费高昂的咨询师。
An expensive gift can make her feel that a man is trying to buy her affections and sees her as a prize rather than a person.
贵重的礼品使她们感到男士是在试图购买她们的感情，把她们看成是赢得的奖品而不是一个人。
They are pressing them to use software, rather than expensive eyes, in the collection of vast amounts of information for anyone who files a semi-plausible suit.
若有人提出半真半假的诉讼，公司要求律师们使用软件——而不是昂贵的人手——来收集大量相关信息。
This week, Xstrata, another big mining firm, suspended operations at a nickel mine in the Dominican Republic while converting its power supply to run on coal, rather than-more expensive-oil.
本周，另一矿业巨头斯特拉塔公司宣布在多米尼加共和国的镍矿生产由更昂贵的石油动力转变为煤动力期间，暂停生产运营。
Rather than just relying on expensive make-up and good lighting, A-list celebrities are trying out extreme procedures in their search for unblemished, wrinkle-free skin.
为了追求白皙光滑的肌肤，一线明星不再只是依靠于昂贵的化妆品和照明设备，他们还尝试了许多极端的方法。
I have a few friends who would love to leave their day job, but their spouse isn't supportive and would rather have expensive possessions than a partner that is satisfied.
我有一些也想辞职的朋友，但是她们的爱人不支持她们，他们宁愿拥有贵重的物品，也不愿意拥有一个感到满足的伴侣。
Rather than send one big, expensive spacecraft on a journey of years, send thousands of cheap ones.
与其发射一架昂贵的大飞船花多年时间航行，他们选择发射上千艘便宜的。
This would prevent business executives from using the easily-obtained permits as a back-door to work, rather than obtaining more expensive or difficult visas.
这将阻止投机者们拿一个容易取得的许可证作为一个后门来工作，而不是通过正当方式获取较昂贵或较难办理的签证来工作。
A trend in the past year, especially with the depressed market cap of small to medium biotechs, is the straight acquisition of a company rather than entry into an expensive collaboration or license.
另一个趋势是，在当前萧条的市场中让中等的生物技术公司略感希望的是，制药公司现在更倾向全资收购，而不再是代价不菲的合作或授权。
I'd rather have a less expensive one.
我宁愿要一间比较便宜的。
You really have a keen eye. This ring is rather expensive.
你真是好眼力，这戒指的价格可不菲啊。
It may be an expensive lesson, but it may actually be better to just pay the debt off yourself rather than hook yourself into a payment arrangement that requires monthly contact to enforce.
有可能是一个昂贵的教训，可是有可能自己将债务偿还而不是让自己陷入一个付款需要每月联系的…解决方法更好。
EXAMPLE: Taking a taxi to the airport can be rather expensive, and taking a gypsy cab is much cheaper, but not necessarily safe or appropriate, so I always take properly licensed cabs.
打的去机场非常贵，打黑车便宜得多，但不一定安全，也不太合适，所以，我总是叫有照经营的出租车。
As a result, dedicated circuits tend to be rather expensive, with their costs being sensitive to distance and capacity.
因此，专用电路相对昂贵，其费用敏感于距离和容量。
This is rather expensive. I must have a cheaper one. Can't you show me something less expensive?
这有点贵。我要一间比较便宜的。可否给我看些较廉价的房间？
This enables you to do object comparisons on these strings rather than a more expensive string comparison.
这使您能够对这些字符串进行对象比较，而不是开销更大的字符串比较。
This enables you to do object comparisons on these strings rather than a more expensive string comparison.
这使您能够对这些字符串进行对象比较，而不是开销更大的字符串比较。
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