If someone is hard-nosed, chances are he will never pay through the nose, or pay too much money, for an object or service.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

You look at certain things and you overly -you pay too much attention to some things and too little to others.

当你在观察一些特定的事物时,你会投入过多精力,而在其他方面投入精力不足

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You don't have to pay too much.

你不必花费太多。

去美国留学 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They pay too much for things. I am not rich.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

I pay too much attention to suffering and that suffering is not what God wants, that we need to concentrate on God's blessings, which are that we be healthy and wealthy.

我过于注重受苦这件事了,受苦并非上帝希望的，我们需要专注于上帝的赐福才对，我们要健康，要富裕。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

They thought seven million dollars was too much to pay for a worthless piece of frozen land.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

But again,all I can tell you is, I find that too big a price to pay.

但我还是再一次告诉你们，那样说的代价沉重得我无法承受。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We have already been there nine years. I believe that is too high a price to pay."

VOA: special.2010.07.31

You can't fight as a hoplite, in other words, unless you can afford to pay for your equipment and that excludes a goodly number of citizens who are too poor to fight in the phalanx.

换句话说,你不能加入步兵方阵,除非你自己能出钱买装备,这样有相当多的公民,会因为贫穷无法在方阵中战斗

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

If it rains too much or too little, crop insurance can pay for losses.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

The Andersons were too poor to pay someone to teach Marian.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

I got it all figured out, too. So many pounds of shrimp will pay off the boat.

VOA: standard.other

"Too many employers cut corners on safety. Too many workers pay the price with their lives."

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

The proposal would not limit bankers' pay, but would allow the Fed to review, and possibly veto, pay policies that cause too much risk-taking at banks.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22