Printing with moveable type on paper dramatically reduced the cost of producing a book compared with the old-fashioned ones handwritten on vellum, which comes from sheepskin.
羊皮纸是用羊皮制作的，与在羊皮纸上手写的老式方法相比，在纸上进行活字印刷大大降低了生产书籍的成本。
Printing with a moveable type on paper dramatically reduced the cost of producing a book compared with the old-fashioned ones handwritten on vellum, which comes from sheepskin.
羊皮纸是用羊皮制作的，与在羊皮纸上手写的传统方法相比，在纸上进行活字印刷大大降低了生产书籍的成本。
To read a book cost me a month.
读一本书花了我一个月的时间。
This book is of such importance that it must be published at any cost.
这本书如此重要，无论如何也要出版。
Book publishers, for example, set prices based on the cost of producing and distributing books.
例如图书出版商基于书的生产和分销成本来确定一本书的价格。
If your next-best alternative to seeing the movie is reading the book, then the opportunity cost of seeing the movie is the money spent plus the pleasure you forgo by not reading the book.
如果对于看电影而言，你的次优选择就是读那本书的话，那看电影的机会成本就是你看电影花的钱，再加上你因为不能读那本书而放弃的那份愉悦。
The Espresso Book Machine can print out about 145 pages per minute at a cost of about 1 cent per page.
这种叫做咖啡印书机的机器每分钟可以打印约145页，成本为每页1美分。
Another analogy is to the invention of the paperback book; by reducing the cost of books, it increased the demand for them.
还可以推论出另一点，平装书的发明；通过减少图书的成本，增加了对图书的需求。
And unlike my paperback book, my eBook isn't going to cost you anything because I'm giving it away for free!
而且不像我的平装书，我的电子书不会花费你一毛钱因为完全就是送的！
Glasses are no longer a scarce resource costing many hundreds of dollars, they can be as simple as buying a DVD or book online, and cost about the same.
眼镜已经不再是值得花费数百美元的稀缺资源了，它们可以网上购买，就像网上买dvd或书那样简单，而且价钱也差不多。
Yet the cost of the device is around $150 – $300, and the price of each book is around $10.
但是，阅读器的价格大约在150刀到300刀之间，而每本书只要大约10刀。
Publishers argue that printing and distribution represents a small proportion of the total cost of making a book.
电子书倒底值多少钱仍存争议。 而出版商辩称印刷、分销书籍的成本只占总成本很小的一个比例。
For example, the cost of a universityeducation involves tuition, and text book purchases, andalso the wages that would have been earned during the time at university, butwere not.
比如，上大学的成本包括学费、书费，还有如果你不上大学，能够挣到的工资。
Beginning with the second edition in 2001, Introduction to Algorithms' cover acquired a blue tint, which cost it its decade-old nickname 'the big white book.'
（《算法导论》（IntroductiontoAlgorithms）的第二版出版于2001年，当时的封面是大家起初不怎么喜欢的淡蓝色调，这本书为此而获得了历时10年的昵称“那本大白皮书”）
Their ruse, to issue 30-day visas, which cost $25, but book them as seven-day ones at $10, was simple and, until spotted, lucrative.
签发30日签证花费25美元，但预约7日签证只需10美元，其伎俩十分低劣，但如果不被发现，就可获利不菲。
The cost of a book depends on the number of pages contained in addition to a base fee (starting at $8.90 for 100 pages) and worldwide shipping that’s charged extra.
书的价格除底价之外（初始价8.9美元100页）由书页多寡决定，全球运送需额外费用。
But all this came at a cost which Mr Wolfensohn's book ignores.
但这一切所付出的代价是沃尔芬森先生的书所忽略的。
It architects and lead developers should read this book so they can intelligently discuss security-cost trade-offs with management and apply its techniques to produce more secure systems.
IT架构师和主要开发人员应当阅读本书，这样，他们就能够明智地讨论安全-成本取舍，并且运用一些技巧以拥有更安全的系统。
The book also proposes cost-effective, hazard-specific infrastructure: for example, schools that double up as cyclone shelters or roadways that double up as drains.
该书还建议提供有成本效益的、针对具体灾害的基础设施，例如可以用作飓风避难场所的学校或可以用作排水通道的道路。
Really, why should a math book cost you $100 anyway?
的确，为什么一本数学课本要花上你100美元呢？
And on both sides of the Atlantic the rising cost of the stealthy F-35 Joint Strike Fighter means its order book could shrink sharply.
而在大西洋东西两岸，具备隐形机能的F -35联合战斗攻击机因为成本不断上涨，其订单数目亦可能出现大幅下滑。
Shoup's solution to reducing congestion due to cruising — which he chronicles in his book The High Cost of Free Parking — begins by raising the cost of street parking to market value.
Shoup 博士在他的著作《免费停车的昂贵代价》中提出了解决由于泊车导致的交通问题的方案，他认为首先要提高街道停车费，并且完全由市场来决定。
这本书花费了我5美元。
这本书花费了我5美元。
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