Now only about "There is change in some people traditionally expected platinum to be an expensive metal, people are looking at it in the same terms as gold values,"

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Some customers want to use your safe because safes are hard and expensive to get and some -and then you've got all this gold, so you might as well lend it out.

顾客需要使用你的保险箱,因为对个人而言保险箱既昂贵又难以获得,这样你就拿到他们的金子,然后你可以把金子借出去

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and some very nice houses around there which are very expensive but nice to look at.

而且附近还有很多漂亮的房屋，很贵但是值得一看。

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But some warn the plan is environmentally risky and expensive.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

Moreover, you might get hit by an illness and then you could be in desperate trouble that you will die unless you get some kind of emergency care, which might be very expensive.

还有，你可能染上重病,并且深陷绝境,以致你会因此而死去,除非你能获得异常昂贵的，紧急护理。

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I think that maybe some people don't think carefully enough about how expensive it is

我觉得有些人没有考虑清楚学费到底有多贵，

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Some people say that the cost of software is too expensive

有的人说软件太贵了，

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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。

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