Why go to the expense of buying an electric saw when you can borrow one?
你能借到电锯，却为何去花钱买呢？
Parasitism is a kind of predator-prey relationship in which one organism, the parasite, derives its food at the expense of its symbiotic associate, the host.
寄生是一种捕食者与被捕食者之间的关系，寄生者利用共生伙伴——宿主来获取食物。
A specific style provides improvement in one or more quality attributes of the application — usually at the expense of other attributes.
特定的风格提供对应用程序的一个或多个质量属性的改进——通常以牺牲其他属性为代价。
One of his goals was to grapple with Malcolm’s autobiography, and although he finds much to admire about Malcolm, he makes it clear that the book’s drama sometimes comes at the expense of fact.
他创作的目标之一就是与马尔科姆的自传一较高低。虽然他发现马尔科姆有很多之多值得崇拜的地方，但是他很清楚，书本情节的戏剧性往往是建立在牺牲事实的基础上的。
To use one of the protesters' better slogans, the 1% have gained at the expense of the 99%.
用某个反对者所持的标语来描述，1%的人获利是以牺牲99%的人的利益为代价的。
They would gain at the expense of germany-one of the keenest supporters of the proposals.
他们的税收将以德国税收减少为代价，而德国是该提议最热心的支持者之一。
Jahanara Kashen: I pay a starving man in Jakarta one handful of rice per day to fill out the expense report that are sent to me from the US.
我每天支付给雅加达一名饥饿的男子一点点大米，让他帮我填写那些从美国发给我的开支报告。
An analysis conducted by Forbes magazine found that the sample menu from the Atkins Nutritional Approach is one of the top five in the expense category of ten plans Forbesanalyzed.
由《福布斯杂志》进行的分析发现，阿特金斯饮食法抽样菜单是《福布斯杂志》分析的十个饮食计划费用最高的前五名之一。
As a result, “one size fits all” products prioritize convenience for the inventor – often at the expense of affordability for the end consumer.
因此，”一种产品设计适用所有人”的确让创新者省事了，但常常是以最终消费者的成本负担为代价的。
If so, firms like Capital One could look forward to sharply higher earnings as lower defaults would allow lenders to ease off on the expense of building their loan-loss reserves.
果真如此的话，那么CapitalOne等公司的收益预计将大幅上升，因为较低的违约率可以减轻信用卡贷款发放公司在提取贷款损失准备金方面的压力。
Mr. Hurd resignedfrom H.P. one month ago, after an investigation by the board into a personalrelationship with a contractor turned up questionable expense reports.
Hurd一月前从惠普辞职，此前，惠普董事会对他与一名承包商关系的调查发现，有些费用报告存在问题。
Given that interconnection, I do not believe that one country's success must come at the expense of another.
鉴于这种相互关联，我不认为一个国家的成功必须以牺牲另一个国家的利益为代价。
The sheer expense of living in Nylonkong is but one of the challenges facing it — as the next three stories demonstrate.
人们生活在纽伦港面临着昂贵的生活费用是一种挑战，以下三件事情便可证明。
Often, the growth of one news source comes at the expense of another.
通常，一种新闻渠道（流量）得以增长另一渠道会受削弱。
But if you have only one or two children, the birth of a daughter may be at a son's expense.
但是，如果只有一个或两个孩子，一个女儿出生也就意味着少了儿子。
One reason for the expense of wave power is the need to make the equipment impervious to storm damage and corrosion.
海浪发电的成本如此昂贵的一个原因是，全部设备必须采取防风暴、防腐蚀的设计。
Mr. Hurd resigned from H. P. one month ago, after an investigation by the board into a personal relationship with a contractor turned up questionable expense reports.
一个月前，马克·赫德因为利用个人关系虚报一位承包商的费用报销问题而被惠普公司董事会辞退。
One country's success does not come at the expense of another.
一个国家的成功不应该以另外一个国家的牺牲作为代价。
One reason could be a demographic shift, with baby boomers dropping out of the workforce; if Labour becomes more scarce, real wages will rise, at the expense of profit margins.
理由之一可能在于人口结构的变化，婴儿潮人士正逐渐退出劳动力市场。若劳动力逐渐稀缺，实际工资便会上升，利润率便会为此付出代价。
"I think we will spend some of our married life simply paying off the expense, but I think that weightlessness is probably the best metaphor for love that one can experience," Fulmore said.
福尔摩说：“我想我们婚后会有一段时间来消化这笔费用，不过，我相信失重的经历也许是我俩爱情的最好象征。”
For one thing, the newlyweds usually cannot afford marriage expense, and transfer the load to parents.
一方面，新婚的人们一般都无法承担婚礼的费用，因此这个负担就转嫁到父母的身上。
Just one month after Hewlett Packard ousted Mark Hurd for expense report improprieties in his relationship with a female company contractor, the ex-CEO is riding high.
因马克·赫德与女性承包商交往中存在不当消费记录，惠普公司炒掉了他，但仅一个月后，这位前首席执行官又开始春风得意。
The argument that counters this one is that if one terminal server can save a plane trip across the country to troubleshoot a node, then the expense is worth it.
考虑到这一点，如果使用终端服务器可以避免管理员长途赶去排除节点的故障，那么终端服务器就是物有所值的。
It's been around since 2001, making it positively fossile-like in computer years, but companies (including this one) continue to balk at the expense and possible pain of upgrading the OS.
那已经是大概2001年的事了，对电脑界来说算是陈年往事了。但是企业们(包括我们)一直都在因为升级操作系统可能带来的花费和痛苦而犹豫不决。
Last week one of my kids told me that my friend's youngest son missed out on a ski trip with the rest of his class because of the expense, even though the cost was minimal (to those of us with jobs).
上周，我听孩子告诉我说，这位朋友最小的儿子因为怕花钱，没跟全班同学一起去滑雪，虽然滑雪的费用对于还有工作的人来说并不算多。
Last week one of my kids told me that my friend's youngest son missed out on a ski trip with the rest of his class because of the expense, even though the cost was minimal (to those of us with jobs).
上周，我听孩子告诉我说，这位朋友最小的儿子因为怕花钱，没跟全班同学一起去滑雪，虽然滑雪的费用对于还有工作的人来说并不算多。
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