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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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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He learned a lesson at the cost of blood.

他以血的代价吸取了教训。

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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

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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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And russia hasnt experienced that much immigration as of yet while Germany has invited and still invites many immigrants, and so are france and uk even more as germany thats why both these countries have better demographic makeup at cost of their hegemony.

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Because of a requirement of the Americans With Disabilities Act that wheelchair ramps be included at all intersections, work crews installed hundreds of these ramps at a cost of millions of dollars at a time when counties and cities here were cutting essential services to the bone.

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