There are two ways to look at cost of living: from your viewpoint as a business owner or from the perspective of your employees.

你可以从两个方面看待生活成本：或者从公司所有者的角度或者从公司员工的角度。

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Analysts predict that Digital will price the new line at less than half the cost of comparable IBM mainframes.

分析家们预测迪吉多公司会将其新线产品的价格定在低于可比的IBM公司大型主机成本的一半的水平。

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In March Mr. Salinas shut down the city's oil refinery at a cost of $500 million and 5,000 jobs.

3月时萨利纳斯先生关闭了该市的炼油厂，损失了5亿美元和5000个工作岗位。

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Republicans have a plan to insure three million more Americans at cost of $60 billion for the same period.

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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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This all came hard and at the cost, I'm sure, of a lot of human life and a lot of misery.

一切都变得艰难了,我确定,这夺走了很多人的生命,造成了很多痛苦

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Not only can the quest for unending accuracy come at the cost of certain elements of game design, this goes to show that it can also come at the cost of those who work on it.

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But cheating to get ahead at any cost (particularly at the cost of another classmate if, for example, a test is graded on a curve) and collaborating with classmates for the common good are different ethical animals.

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This is called monetisation of debt and it does work, at the cost of inflation at some point in the future.

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