The bottom line: Excelling at this style of humor may lead to party invitations but can ultimately exact a high price.

概要：擅长这种幽默可能带来许多聚会邀请，但最终还得付出很高的代价。

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But they could exact a high price: they are long-standing advocates of a proportional voting system, which would boost them but could damage the two big parties.

但他们的要价不会低，比如他们会要求进行比例选举，这对他们有利而会减少两大党的票数。

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Since the market is more or less efficient, it tends to exact a higher price for higher quality and a lower price for lower quality.

由于市场是更多或更少效率，它往往精确更高的价格，更高的质量和较低的价格为低质量。

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Europeans are likely to want Britain in the system, though they will probably exact a price.

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Getting social networking wrong can exact a price, as Chris Murphy notes in a post on Informationweek.

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Plainly, open markets, like other policy measures, exact a price.

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