At that time, PCs were very expensive and it was too dear to link one ' s computer to the web. What' s more, it was too slow. So few people knew what the Internet really meant.

在那个时代，不光电脑贵，电脑连接网络的费用更是可怕，更严重的是网速还超慢，所以很少有人知道网络到底意味着什么。

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I think so. But video phone has been very hard to achieve. It's either been to be expensive, or too crowded, or can we use the internet to finally introduce video phone and this is different from video on-demand.

我也这么认为，但视频电话要成功很困难,它要么很贵，要么很拥堵，或者我们是否可以使用互联网引入视频电话,这与随需视频是不同的。

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but sometimes, if it's too expensive, I don't think it's justified to buy organic.

不过有时候，如果太贵了，买有机食品就不划算了。

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Oftentimes, inventions that seem, in the abstract, to be good ideas may be impossible because something that you have to do to make it actually come into practice is too expensive and so it's not economic to produce the invention.

通常在理论上,创新固然不错,但却很难实现,因为把创意变成现实,花费会相当的昂贵,实现这样的创意非常不合算

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It's too expensive, it's stressing.

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"Psychologically, it's just another blow for the beer drinker, the pub and the brewery and it's just another thing that might make people at the margins think 'it's too expensive to go to the pub, I'll just buy some alcohol from the supermarket and take it home', " he added.

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"It's too expensive for us to do it for everybody right now, " Mr. Michelson says.

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