More than one-quarter of the world's oil and almost one-fifth of the world's natural gas come from offshore, even though offshore drilling is six to seven times more expensive than drilling on land.
全球超过四分之一的石油和近五分之一的天然气来自近海，尽管近海钻探的成本是陆地钻探的六到七倍。
The diamond ring is more expensive than the silver ring and the gold ring.
钻石戒指比银戒指和金戒指要贵得多。
Tokyo is about one third more expensive than Karachi, which is the least expensive city among the 214 cities.
东京的生活成本大约比卡拉奇高三分之一，卡拉奇是214个城市中生活成本最低的城市。
If advanced economies can provide these, rather than the complex and expensive products more typically consumed, we too can benefit from the success of the emerging world.
如果发达经济体可以提供这些东西，而不是更常见的那些复杂、昂贵的产品，那么我们也能从新兴世界的成功中受益。
Since 2003, the after-tax cost of raising debt has been much lower than the cost of issuing shares, even in the more expensive high-yield market.
自2003年以来，举债的税后成本已经比发行股票，甚至是在更昂贵的高收益市场上发行股票的成本要低很多。
Many analysts expected it to drop back in the following months but Brent crude is still around 25% more expensive than it was at the end of 2010.
许多分析人士认为在随后的几个月里会实现回落，但直到现在布兰特原油的价格仍比2010年末时高出25%左右。
In many cases the packaging was more expensive than the garment inside.
在许多情况下，包装比里面的衣服价格更贵。
In fact, the blog (inexpensive) has more visitors and views than the corporate website (expensive).
其实，博客(便宜的)比公司网站(昂贵的)有更多的访问者和看法。
Congress and the Pentagon would not comment on the cost of congressional travel, but it is many times more expensive than flying commercial.
国会和五角大楼对国会出行的开销不发表任何意见，但它显然比搭商业航班贵很多倍。
Unit Labour costs have risen more often than not in the past five years.Chinese workers in the cities are now at least as expensive as their Thai or Filipino peers.
在过去五年里，企业单位工人工资的涨幅超过了非企业单位工人的工资。在许多城市，中国工人工资至少和泰国、菲律宾工人工资持平。
However, the alternatives to PVC could likewise grow in volume in the future, making them less expensive and more competitive than they are at present.
然而，PVC的替代产品在将来也会达到大规模生产，这会让它们比现在更便宜也更有竞争性。
Jane then stuffed the top expensive wonderful picnic in the summer heat at all which is less than a bottle of cheap pink wine is more delicious simple charm.
再昂贵精彩的顶级珍酿在夏季炎热的野餐会上都还比不上一瓶廉价简单的粉红酒来得美味迷人。
As the producers tend to save more of their income than the consumers, more expensive commodities bear down on global demand.
因为生产者比消费者更能节省自己的收入，而商品价格越贵，全球性需求越低。
As a consequence, the lasers have to be constructed separately and then grafted onto the chips, which is more expensive and time-consuming than building them directly on silicon would be.
结果之一是，这种激光必须先被分开构造，然后桥接到芯片上，这可比直接焊接在芯片上难得多，而且杀时间。
In the early 1980s, personal computers (PCs) became very popular. They were less expensive and had more processing power than the dumb terminal counterparts.
在1980年代早期，个人电脑(PC)变得非常流行，它比大型主机便宜，处理能力又比简易终端之类的设备强。
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that some of Mr Obama's social policies will be more expensive than the White House claims, and that the economy will grow more slowly.
国会预算办公室估计奥巴马的一些社会政策将会比白宫所宣称的更加耗费，并使得经济增长进一步的缓慢。
Is the duplication of data in multiple tables of frequently requested columns, more or less expensive than performing the table joins?
对于具有经常被请求的列的多个表，一种是复制其中的数据，一种是执行表连接，两者谁的成本更高呢？
These items are typically more expensive than the versions that don't make the same health claims.
而且这些物品通常都特别的贵相比同类哪些没有没有这些健康宣称的商品。
The notion that gold is more expensive than ever happens to fit with a larger narrative that also does not square with the facts - namely, that inflation is an imminent threat.
黄金价格比从前更加昂贵的观念适用于没有考虑通货膨胀的更宽泛的概念——而实际上，通货膨胀是近在眼前的威胁。
The only waffle weave bath towels widely available in the U.S. currently are manufactured in Europe, and are more expensive than American-made towels.
目前在美国很多地方都买得到的华夫格织浴巾都是在欧洲生产的，比美国本地生产的浴巾昂贵。
The hybrids, though heavier and more expensive than their conventional brethren, still achieved good enough gas mileage and reliability scores to make the ranking.
混合动力汽车尽管比它们的传统车型重量大、价格高，但仍旧能在油耗和性能上得到足够高的分数以跻身排名。
The costs of the technology are coming down, but the device is still more expensive than other systems.
虽然技术成本正在减少，但此仪器仍比其他安全系统昂贵。
The largest impediment to introduction of electronic chauffeuring may turn out to be the general perception that it's more difficult and expensive to implement than it really is.
电子驾驶应用的最大障碍可能在于一种普遍的观念，认为这一技术的应用比实际情况更困难，更昂贵。
In general, the emissions cuts picked by politicians are far more expensive than those chosen by the private sector.
总的说来，政客们选择的减排项目比私有行业选择的项目更花费钱财。
The more expensive the placebo, the higher the success rate, the study found, and intravenous injections are shown to be more effective than oral medication.
调查发现安慰剂越昂贵，其治疗成功率越高，并且静脉注射形式比口头形式更有效。
The European market remains much more fragmented than the American one: entrepreneurs have to grapple with a patchwork of legal codes and an expensive and time-consuming patent system.
欧洲市场较美国市场而言更加分散；创业者们需要服从各种法律规范；专利申请更加耗时费钱。
This indicates that the relationship between payload, TCP packets, and transfer time is non-linear and that the first packets on a connection are relatively more expensive than the rest.
这表明负荷、tcp包和传输时间之间的关系并不是线性的，而且第一个连接上的包比其他包更耗资源。
The case will be aluminum, which is more expensive than plastic but is sturdier and lets us shave a little more off the overall thickness of the device.
外壳将采用铝制材料，所以比塑料的昂贵但更为结实，让我们能够压缩更多一些的厚度。
The case will be aluminum, which is more expensive than plastic but is sturdier and lets us shave a little more off the overall thickness of the device.
外壳将采用铝制材料，所以比塑料的昂贵但更为结实，让我们能够压缩更多一些的厚度。
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