A silver standard would lower the value of the dollar.

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And what it involves is placing a value, usually a dollar value, to stand for utility on the costs and the benefits of various proposals.

其做法包括，作出估价，通常是估计出金额，来代表功利,即分别列出成本，和各项收益的金额。

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You got to assign a dollar value to know whether you want to prevent those deaths by banning the use of cell phones in cars.

你必须用金钱来衡量,是否需要禁止司机使用手机,来避免此类事件发生。

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The only thing worth more than the slaves in the American economy of the 1850s was the land itself, and no one can really put a dollar value on all of the land of North America.

十九世纪五十年代的美国经济中,唯一价值超过奴隶的就是土地,而且没有人能够真正对,美国北部的土地进行估值

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So, these are some of the controversies that arise these days from cost-benefit analysis, especially those that involve placing a dollar value on everything to be added up.

以上即为近来对成本效益分析,引发的一些争论，尤其是其中那些,认为可以用金钱衡量一切的观点。

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Well, I think that once again, they've made the same mistake the previous case did, that they assigned a dollar value to human life, and once again, they failed to take account things like suffering and emotional losses by the families.

我觉得他们犯了与前面案例,相同的错误，量化了生命的价值，但同样的，他们没有考虑受害者家人承受的,痛苦和精神损失。

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And you remember, we considered some examples of cost-benefit analysis, but a lot of people were unhappy with cost-benefit analysis when it came to placing dollar value on human life.

我们还思考了些成本效益分析的例子，但许多人并不赞同,成本效益分析用金钱来衡量人的生命。

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