食物匮乏而且昂贵。

Food was scarce and expensive.

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她的黑色套装素净且昂贵。

Her black suit was restrained and expensive.

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食品居然并不那么昂贵。

The food was not actually all that expensive.

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I'm going to come back to that in a second with that, but I need to do one more example, and I've got to use my high-tech really expensive props. Right. So here's the fourth or fifth whatever we're up to, I guess fifth example.

并且我会用到我的,高科技的昂贵小道具，好，这是第四个还是第五个了？,好，我猜是第五个例子了,这是个被称为汉诺塔的问题。

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I mean, to the extent that you're making these short-term bets against your long-term policy, it requires trading and trading is expensive.

我的意思是,在长期策略下进行短期操作,就需要进行交易,而交易是昂贵的

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So,it's going to be terribly expensive.

所以费用十分昂贵

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