Purchases of food for emergency aid are also now more costly.

购买紧急援助类粮食的成本也很高。

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But it could also make the battles over patents nastier and more costly.

但这也会使得专利之争更卑劣更烧钱。

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After-the-fact education is usually more costly than what is provided before.

事后教育通常会比事前教育付出更大的代价。

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As both the North and South were learning quickly, the Civil War was becoming more costly than anyone had imagined.

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We'll see later on, there are classes of computation that are inherently much more complex. We hate them, because they're costly, but they're sometimes inherently that way.

我们会稍后详细的讲讲这个,有许多内在更加复杂的种类的算法,我们痛恨它们，因为它们很耗时。

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Yet researchers from Stanford University say new treatments are often no better than existing ones, but are almost always more costly.

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But they were saddled with more costly loans, which obviously depletes their net worth.

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In many markets, inferior products can act as partial substitutes for more costly superior products.

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But if you ignore the rigors of responsibility, the choices get infinitely more costly.

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