It allows for economic efficiency, and when we buy things from places that have lower production costs than we do, we benefit.
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Textbook versions are constantly updated, motivating publishers by minimizing production costs (the big ones like McGraw-Hill are already on board).
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
The Big Three American carmakers—General Motors, Ford and Chrysler—accumulated ruinous costs over the post-war years, such as gold-plated health plans and pensions for workers who retired as young as
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
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N-COUNT
费用;花费;价钱
The cost of something is the amount of money that is needed in order to buy, do, or make it.
例句
The cost of a loaf of bread has increased five-fold...
一条面包的价钱增长了4倍。
In 1989 the price of coffee fell so low that in many countries it did not even cover the cost of production...
1989年咖啡的价格跌至低谷，在很多国家甚至连生产成本都收不回来。
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VERB
需付费;价钱为
If something costs a particular amount of money, you can buy, do, or make it for that amount.
例句
This course is limited to 12 people and costs £50...
该课程只招收12人，学费为50英镑。
Painted walls look much more interesting and doesn't cost much...
彩绘墙壁看上去更有趣而且花费也不高。
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N-PLURAL
成本
Your costs are the total amount of money that you must spend on running your home or business.
例句
Costs have been cut by 30 to 50 per cent...
成本降低了30%到50%。
The company admits its costs are still too high.
该公司承认其成本仍然过高。
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VERB
估算成本;估价
When something that you plan to do or make is costed, the amount of money you need is calculated in advance.
例句
Everything that goes into making a programme, staff, rent, lighting, is now costed.
制作节目的所有成本：人工、租用场地、灯光现在都已经估算了。
...seventy apartments, shops, offices, a restaurant and hotel, costed at around 10 million pounds.
估价约为1,000万英镑的70套公寓、店铺、办公室、一家大饭店
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N-PLURAL
诉讼费用
If someone is ordered by a court of law to pay costs, they have to pay a sum of money towards the expenses of a court case they are involved in.
例句
He was jailed for 18 months and ordered to pay £550 costs.
他被监禁了18个月，还责令他支付550英镑的诉讼费。
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N-UNCOUNT
成本价
If something is sold at cost, it is sold for the same price as it cost the seller to buy it.
例句
...a store that provided cigarettes and candy bars at cost.
按成本价出售香烟和糖果的商店
...a practice known as dumping – that is, selling below cost to drive competition out of business.
倾销行为——即通过以低于成本的价格销售产品来挤垮竞争对手
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N-SING
代价;损失
The cost of something is the loss, damage, or injury that is involved in trying to achieve it.
例句
In March Mr Salinas shut down the city's oil refinery at a cost of $500 million and 5,000 jobs.
3月份，萨利纳斯先生关闭了该市的炼油场，造成5亿美元的损失，并使5,000人失去了工作。
...being so afraid of something that you feel you have to avoid it whatever the cost to your lifestyle.
如此地害怕某事觉得必须避开它，无论自己的生活方式因此受到怎样的影响都在所不惜
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VERB
使丧失;使损失
If an event or mistake costs you something, you lose that thing as the result of it.
例句
...a six-year-old boy whose life was saved by an operation that cost him his sight...
手术救了一名6岁男孩的命，却使他失明了
The increase will hurt small business and cost many thousands of jobs.
这种增长会使小企业受损并使成千上万的人失去工作。
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PHRASE
不惜任何代价
If you say that something must be avoided at all costs, you are emphasizing that it must not be allowed to happen under any circumstances.
例句
They told Jacques Delors a disastrous world trade war must be avoided at all costs.
他们告诉雅克·德洛尔必须不惜任何代价避免一场毁灭性的世界贸易战。
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PHRASE
无论如何;在任何代价下
If you say that something must be done at any cost, you are emphasizing that it must be done, even if this requires a lot of effort or money.
例句
This book is of such importance that it must be published at any cost...
这本书非常重要，无论如何也要出版。
He ordered the army to recapture the camp at any cost.
他命令军队无论如何也要夺回营地。
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PHRASE
计算代价;考虑后果
If someone counts the cost of something that has happened or will happen, they consider how the consequences of that action or event affect them.
例句
Several countries in eastern Europe are counting the cost of yesterday's earthquake...
东欧的几个国家正在计算昨天的地震带来的损失。
Many people act on impulse without counting the cost.
很多人不考虑后果就莽撞行事。
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PHRASE
需付钱的;价格昂贵的
If you say that something costs money, you mean that it has to be paid for, and perhaps cannot be afforded.
例句
Well-designed clothes cost money.
设计精美的服装价格昂贵。
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PHRASE
付出代价;吃了苦头
If you know something to your cost, you know it because of an unpleasant experience that you have had.
例句
Kathryn knows to her cost the effect of having served a jail sentence...
凯瑟琳吃了苦头才知道服过刑会给一个人带来什么影响。
There are very few people he can talk to in total confidence, as he has discovered to his cost.
他吃了亏后才发现自己真正能够交心的人寥寥无几。