The increase in cost could inhibit consumption, and reduced demand could lead to a fall in prices, which could in turn stimulate consumption.

增加的费用会抑制消费，减少的需求会导致价格垮掉，垮掉的价格又反过来会拉动消费。

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The increase in cost of living was, however, most keenly felt in Australia due to a rise in the Aussie against the U. S. dollar, Mercer said in its 2011 cost of living survey.

美世在其“2011生活成本”调查中称，因澳元兑美元上升，生活成本增加在澳大利亚感觉最明显。

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We probably won't see an increase in biofuel use—I mean, they won't replace fossil fuels until we can find ways to produce them cheaply and quickly and with less cost to the environment.

我们可能不会看到生物燃料使用的增加——我的意思是，在我们找到方法以更低的成本、更快的速度和更少的环境成本生产它们之前，它们不会取代化石燃料。

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The private-public partnerships are designed to increase the availability of low cost vaccines in poor areas.

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Inflation, the rise in the cost of fuel and the increase in VAT means that the cost of living has risen at a time when most of us are experiencing pay freezes, pay cuts and, in some cases, unemployment.

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Overall, the incremental cost of doing things the right way results in just a small increase in the cost of producing gas from shale, in the range of 20-30 cents per MCF certainly not enough to derail the development of this resource, or permanently disadvantage it against other sources of supply.

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The increase in the cost is what caused other people to start looking at this thing.

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