A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
成本
Cost
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
Take a second look; it costs you nothing.
再看一看;不花你一分钱。
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。
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。