A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
费用
Expense
Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.
作为一名演员，你有很多开销。
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
以牺牲美德为代价换来的笑声太昂贵了。
My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.
我爸爸做了好几份工作来支付我滑冰的费用。
I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
我要把钱花在教育上，而不是花在其他项目上。
Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
当企业过度投资于以可能为代价的东西时，它们就会失败。
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
我发现，失去幸福的一种必然的方式，就是牺牲其他一切来换取幸福。
No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.
除了议会批准和提供的费用外，没有发生任何费用。
I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.
我是在以我的存在和世界的其他部分为代价追求内在的道路。
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
我确实很富有，因为我的收入高于我的开支，我的开支等于我的愿望。
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
仅仅节俭不是经济。在真正的经济中，开支，以及巨额开支，可能是一个必不可少的部分。
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
国家是一个巨大的虚拟实体，每个人都试图以牺牲他人为代价来生存。
At the same time, I definitely want to expand my fan base but not at the expense of prostituting my music or heart.
与此同时，我当然想扩大我的歌迷基础，但不是以牺牲我的音乐或心脏为代价。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
名誉和权力是所有人的目标。甚至他们的部分成果也是由极少数人获得的;而且，这也以牺牲社交乐趣、健康、良知和生命为代价。
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
令人惊讶的是，为什么中产阶级仍然坚持让他们的孩子感到如此不舒服，而自己却付出了如此大的代价。
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.
每个人都想以国家为代价生活。他们忘记了国家想要牺牲所有人的利益。
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。
I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.
我认为，很多人过于沉迷于婚礼和婚礼的花费，以至于他们错过了真正的目的是什么。这不是一个生产数字，这是一个有意义的时刻，两个人之间的见证，他们真正了解和关心的人。