The World Bank has predicted adjusting to the effects of climate change will cost up to $100 billion a year until 2050.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

What we really want to worry about is, as the size of the problem gets larger, how does this thing grow? How does the cost go up?

随着问题规模的变大，解决问题花费的代价是怎么增长的,因此我们将会主要地讲讲？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So, these are some of the controversies that arise these days from cost-benefit analysis, especially those that involve placing a dollar value on everything to be added up.

以上即为近来对成本效益分析,引发的一些争论，尤其是其中那些,认为可以用金钱衡量一切的观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The goal was to test whether Internet stations could be set up, how much they would cost, and how long they could operate.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

Now, there's the other side of the stock going up and we have to think about how much that can cost us and whether our coupons are enough and whether the difference between the $.60 that we paid is apt to cover that.

现在，如果相反，股票价格上升,那么我们必须考虑这会花费我们多少,以及我们的票息,和我们付出的0。60美元的价格和,是否能够恰好冲抵它。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Cleaning up and repairing that city may cost a billion and a half dollars or more.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

But actually there is a little bit of an energy cost into doubling up into a single orbital, because, of course, it takes energy when you create more electron repulsion, that's not something we want to do, but we have to do it here, and it turns out that that effect predominates over, again, the energy that we gain by increasing the atomic number by one.

但实际上，在一个轨道上放两个电子,确实会亏损一点能量，因为，当你加入更多电子，引起更大的排斥能,这显然会消耗能量，这不是我们想要做的，但是在这种情况下我们不得不做，结果这一影响，超过了增加一个,原子序数所得到的能量。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Then,when the food crisis hit, the cost of foreign rice shot up.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

And since natural gas is a major ingredient in fertilizer, the cost of this essential farm supply could go up,too.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

The cost of materials,bait and fuel, and the price of lobsters hasn't kept up with it.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

And as the cost of everything goes up, extreme poverty in Yemen becomes more prevalent.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

The UN health agencies say it could cost about $39 billion over the next six years to scale up the recommended measures in the 68 high-risk developing countries.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

The towers cost $2,200 to set up, but very little to operate.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Unemployment in the United States edged up to 9.8 percent in September, and President Obama says the ballooning cost of health care is part of the reason for it.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

"There had recently been riots in Morocco due to the cost of wheat going up, so I traveled there to bake alongside Arab women in a large village oven.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

State taxes make up more than $4 of the cost.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

"So what you get may be cost, but what you give up may be the on-going relationship, the communication, the follow-up care, and things,traditionally, American patients have held very dear."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Prospective patients must be fit for travel, the cost must make economic sense, the length of stay should be relatively short and follow-up care must be predictable and fairly brief.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

The cost of doing business keeps going up.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

"The cost of solar has been dropping on average about 30 percent a year, where the cost of traditional energies has been going up exponentially because the price of fossil fuels is going up,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

"And the way that we make up the difference for what those uninsured patients cost in terms of the cost of their care, is that we have to utilize the excess of revenues over expenses or the profits we generate from patients who have insurance."

VOA: standard.2010.02.25