We human beings have done a lot of things at the cost of the environment to develop economy quickly in the past few years.

在过去的几年里，为了快速发展经济，我们人类做了很多以环境为代价的事情。

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Lately, the industry has put a lot of focus on executing agile change, yet agility at the cost of manageability is not very useful.

近来，行业已经将注意力放在实现灵活变化上，但是以可管理性为代价的敏捷不是很有用。

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Yes, OTAs can move a lot of inventory, but at what cost?

的确，在线旅行社可以帮助你出售大量库存，但这需要花费多少成本？

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This all came hard and at the cost, I'm sure, of a lot of human life and a lot of misery.

一切都变得艰难了,我确定,这夺走了很多人的生命,造成了很多痛苦

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"There were a lot of people with a lot of vested interest in making sure he would stay alive at whatever cost, " Wanis said.

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"At the moment we have some players who cost this football club a lot of money and they need to be better for the team, " said Redknapp.

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With the high cost of restaurants, and tips, and delivery charges, cooking at home makes a lot of financial sense.

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