Grand says if they were to make the cloth now, it would be twice as expensive as buying it from outside.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

I also would like you to pick up this paperback, it's not terribly expensive.We're going to be using it in the first few weeks especially: The Ancient Near East.

同时我希望你们都能有这本书，它不是很贵的，我们将在开始的几周里,用到它，这本。

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So, if you bought a newspaper it would be only two sheets because it was so expensive-- not all the thick paper that we have today-- and it would cost something like $10 or $20 in today's prices.

你要是在当时买报纸的话,恐怕只有两页纸,因为纸实在是太贵了-,而且我们现在用的那种厚纸很少见-,按照今天的物价水平,大概需要10至20美元。

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