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

That would be like a quarter of 1% to postpone your payment by another year; so time was really cheap.

也就是说只需要付1%的1/4就能,延迟一年还款,时间的价值很低

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And the tickets are really cheap, at least compared to what you would be paying for them normally.

那些门票真的很便宜，至少比你平时买的票便宜。

实惠的歌舞剧 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They say when people learn that the prostitute in a brothel may be an unwilling victim of sexual exploitation or the cheap jeans they buy in a store are produced by people working some of these forms of contemporary slavery may dry up.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21