The strong yen hurts Japanese exporters struggling to sell goods that are now more expensive in foreign markets.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

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。

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

它们会贵一点，被称作配件。

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Venezuelan oil analyst Juan Carlos Sosa says the government has diverted funds from oil infrastructure in order to sustain ever-more-expensive socialist initiatives.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

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

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

"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

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