"And since it is so much more expensive and so much more difficult to cure, that would be a catastrophe."

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

I'm going to come back to that in a second with that, but I need to do one more example, and I've got to use my high-tech really expensive props. Right. So here's the fourth or fifth whatever we're up to, I guess fifth example.

并且我会用到我的,高科技的昂贵小道具，好，这是第四个还是第五个了？,好，我猜是第五个例子了,这是个被称为汉诺塔的问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And things are a lot more expensive so we're spending a lot more money on food just to eat.

吃的东西很贵，所以我们在食物上花了很多钱。

与众不同的纽约 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The shutdown is bad news for the recession-hit country partly because it will lose a source of cheap electricity and be forced to import more expensive energy.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

So, stocks were cheaper and bonds were more expensive.

于是股票更加便宜,债券更加昂贵

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Tractors are always running," "So we're always burning fuel." Pitt and many other U.S. farmers are concerned that fuel may be can more expensive under climate change proposals that U.S.congress and negotiators in Copenhagenare considering.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

Then, there came along the AIDS crisis in South Africa, and the American AIDS drugs were hugely expensive, far more than could be afforded by most Africans.

然而，艾滋危机在南非爆发之后，美国治疗艾滋病的药品却是天价，大多数非洲人根本无力承担。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Republicans oppose a proposed surtax on high wage earnings to pay for the new system, and assert that plan amounts to a government takeover of health care that would be far more expensive than Democrats and the president project.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

There's definitely some more expensive places and some cheap places.

肯定有些地方贵些，有些地方便宜些。

在绿色市场 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"I do believe we probably should step up the relatively unobtrusive and relatively easy, although sometimes somewhat expensive, means of looking for explosives perhaps many more K-9 bomb teams at these kinds of places and we should continue put a lot of resources in intelligence work."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

which is slightly more expensive and that's called the Assembly.

它们会贵一点，被称作配件。

推荐古老店铺 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

At an estimated $87 billion, the measure would expand health insurance coverage to about currently without it,create new private insurance marketplaces, And,like the slightly more expensive measure passed by the House of Representatives, it would end a practice by private insurance companies of denying coverage to individuals with existing health problems.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25