They said the saving in expense made it worthwhile even though sourcing it took quite a bit of time.
他们说，节省这笔开支是值得的，尽管采购它花了不少时间。
This year, the couple's main expense was dollar 180 in compost.
今年，这对夫妇主要的开销就是180美元的肥料。
Moreover, the law does little to address the more basic problem of a patent system that has grown in expense for all kinds of companies that want to protect their ideas.
另外，法律没有解决专利体系存在一个更重要的问题：各类公司为保护自己的点子付出高昂的支出。
It did not accord with the rationality of plan, the moderation in expense, or even the unselfish warmth of heart, which she had believed herself to discern in him yesterday.
她昨天还觉得他办事有条有理，花钱有所节制，甚至待人热情无私，谁想他今天的表现却并非如此。
Both Parties recognize that time is of the essence in this Agreement and that each party's failure to fulfill their obligations hereunder shall result in expense and damage to the other.
双方认识到在本协议中时间非常重要，其中一方未履行其在本协议项下的义务会给另一方造成费用和损害。
They may want to know that the product they're buying hasn't been made at the expense of the people who are producing it, whether it's in this country or abroad.
他们可能想知道他们购买的产品是否以生产人员的利益为代价，不管是本国的还是国外的。
"There seems to be a predominance of short-term thinking at the expense of long-term investing," said Commissioner Daniel Gallagher of the US Securities and Exchange Commission in a speech this week.
本周，美国证交会委员丹尼尔·加拉格尔在一次演讲中表示：“短线思维似乎已占据主导地位 ，其代价是长期投资受损。”
People do it at the expense of everything that was a constant in their lives.
人们这样做的代价是牺牲生活中所有一尘不变的东西。
It may be in a pool too small or too far from a potential market to justify the expense of drilling.
可能是储存它的池子太小，或与潜在的市场相距太远，因而钻井费用过高，不适宜开采。
The Roosevelt Administration believed that rebuilding the nation's soil was in the national interest and was not simply a plan to help farmers at the expense of other citizens.
罗斯福政府认为，恢复国有土地是符合国家利益的，也不只是一个牺牲其他公民的利益来帮助农民的计划。
Even high-priced commodities like spices had to be transported in large bulk in order to justify the expense and trouble of sailing around the African continent all the way to India and China.
即使像香料这样的高价商品，也必须大量运输，以证明环绕非洲大陆航行到印度和中国的费用和不便是合理的。
No expense was spared in furnishing the new office.
装潢新办公室不惜工本。
Copernicus theorized in 1543 that all of the planets that we knew of revolved not around the Earth, but the Sun, a system that was later upheld by Galileo at his own expense.
哥白尼在1543年提出了一个理论，即我们所知道的所有行星不是绕着地球转，而是绕着太阳转的，这一理论后来得到了伽利略的支持，但伽利略本人也为此付出了代价。
The development of the oil field on the North Slope of Alaska and the construction of the Alaska pipeline are examples of the great expense and difficulty involved in new oil discoveries.
阿拉斯加北坡油田的开发，以及阿拉斯加地区输油管道的建设，就是在新石油资源的勘探中涉及到巨额开支和巨大困难的例子。
Government originally planned to remove the Elwha and Glines Dams in Washington, the enormous expense of removal has resulted in a postponement of this effort.
政府原本计划拆除华盛顿的艾尔瓦和格莱恩斯大坝，但巨大的拆除费用导致这一计划被推迟。
The downside of living in a city is the high living expense.
城市生活的缺点就是生活成本很高。
It does not cost much to scrape it up, and the expense comes in moving costs from mine to market. Even so, Australia can produce iron ore for $25 a tonne.
开采成本本身不高，而且外部投资正在将成本从矿山转移到市场。即便如此，澳大利亚可以以每吨25澳元的价格成本生产铁矿石。
In 1855, Whitman published, at his own expense, the first edition of his collection of twelve poems.
1855年，惠特曼自费出版了他12首诗的第一版。
In other cases the discounts are given at the expense, directly or indirectly, of younger Americans.
在其他情况下，折扣是直接或间接地由美国年轻人支付的。
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。
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。
In the first column, write each expense down from your sheet from yesterday, then in the second column, write the amount per week that you calculated yesterday.
在第一栏里，写上昨天得出的每一项的支出名称；在第二栏里，写上昨天算好的每周可节省的费用。
That day cannot come soon enough for most who sat around the big table, as they struggle to justify the expense in blood and treasure to their people back home.
对于大部分会议出席者来说，那一天的到来犹如“远水救不了近火”，因为他们正努力为国内人民提出各种牺牲战士和支出国库的正当理由。
Transportation is now the second biggest household expense in the US after housing.
交通费用在美国已经成为除了购买住房之外，家庭的第二大项开支。
In general larger firms grew at the expense of smaller ones.
总体来说，大企业靠牺牲小企业成长起来。
In our expense claim example each claim has a lifecycle of four states as shown Figure 1.
在我们费用申领示例中，每笔费用申领的生命周期都包含四个状态，如图2中所示。
Usually, rebels in uniform suffer at the expense of their ideas.
穿军装的叛逆通常要为自己的思想付出代价。
Usually, rebels in uniform suffer at the expense of their ideas.
穿军装的叛逆通常要为自己的思想付出代价。
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