A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
成本
Cost
There is a high cost for low living.
低生活成本很高。
Take a second look; it costs you nothing.
再看一看;不花你一分钱。
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
教导我们要付出,不要计较代价。
To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
施惠于人往往花费少而帮助大。
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
世界的时尚是避免成本,而你却遇到了它。
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
当蜡烛比蛋糕贵的时候,你就知道自己老了。
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
以良心为代价赢得数百万美元的人是一个失败者。
Who has time to manually spam web sites? That can't be very cost effective.
谁有时间手动垃圾网站?那不太划算。
My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
我生命中最喜欢的东西不需要花一分钱。很明显,我们拥有的最宝贵的资源是时间。
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
宽恕是心灵的节约……宽恕节省了愤怒的代价,仇恨的代价,精神的浪费。
Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.
每一个零售商,当他们给商品定价时,都会考虑他们的总成本。当他们的成本上升时,他们会相应地给产品定价。
One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
我们可以自信地说的一件事是,我们将拥有更轻、更坚固的材料,这将降低航空飞行的成本,以及火箭的成本。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost.
动物比人类有这些优势:它们从来不听钟声,它们死的时候没有任何死亡的想法,它们没有神学家来指导它们,它们的最后时刻不会被不受欢迎和不愉快的仪式所打扰,它们的葬礼费用高昂。