While many parents are putting money aside for college tuition, some are taking on another big expense: buying cars for their teenagers.
许多父母在将钱留作大学学费时，然而有些则在进行另一项巨大开支：为他们十几岁的孩子们买车。
Government originally planned to remove the Elwha and Glines Dams in Washington, the enormous expense of removal has resulted in a postponement of this effort.
政府原本计划拆除华盛顿的艾尔瓦和格莱恩斯大坝，但巨大的拆除费用导致这一计划被推迟。
They often sensationalise news stories, glamorizing the lives of the rich and the famous at the expense of real news stories such as war and famine.
他们经常炒作新闻故事：美化富人和名人的生活，而牺牲了真实的新闻故事，如战争和饥荒。
Therefore, a begging nestling that secures food at the expense of its siblings might actually leave behind fewer copies of its genes overall than it might otherwise.
因此，一只以其兄弟姐妹为代价来获取食物的乞食雏鸟实际上可能会比其它雏鸟留下更少的基因副本。
They may want to know that the product they're buying hasn't been made at the expense of the people who are producing it, whether it's in this country or abroad.
他们可能想知道他们购买的产品是否以生产人员的利益为代价，不管是本国的还是国外的。
Copernicus theorized in 1543 that all of the planets that we knew of revolved not around the Earth, but the Sun, a system that was later upheld by Galileo at his own expense.
哥白尼在1543年提出了一个理论，即我们所知道的所有行星不是绕着地球转，而是绕着太阳转的，这一理论后来得到了伽利略的支持，但伽利略本人也为此付出了代价。
费用高得使人不敢问津。
Three of us bought a boat together, and the expense involved will be shared among us.
我们三人一起买了一艘小艇，相关的费用由我们分摊。
They said the saving in expense made it worthwhile even though sourcing it took quite a bit of time.
他们说，节省这笔开支是值得的，尽管采购它花了不少时间。
It may be in a pool too small or too far from a potential market to justify the expense of drilling.
可能是储存它的池子太小，或与潜在的市场相距太远，因而钻井费用过高，不适宜开采。
She always travels first-class regardless of expense.
无论费用多高她总是乘头等舱。
He's arranged everything, no expense spared.
他不惜代价把一切安排得井井有条。
No expense was spared in furnishing the new office.
装潢新办公室不惜工本。
He put Elizabeth's motel bill and airfare on his expense account.
他把伊丽莎白住汽车旅馆的费用和机票费用记在了他的报销账户上。
Should architects continue to be trained for five years at public expense?
建筑师继续受训5年应由公众付费吗？
Parents who routinize child care are minimizing expense and maximizing their control.
使儿童看护规范化的家长最大程度地强化了控制，节约了支出。
They went to all the expense of redecorating the house and then they moved.
他们不惜一切代价重新装饰这房子，可后来又搬走了。
I was tired of his cheap jokes at my expense.
我讨厌他拿我开低级庸俗的玩笑。
Democrats will complain he overemphasizes punishment at the expense of prevention and treatment.
民主党人会抱怨他过分强调了惩罚，而忽略了预防和处理。
Ford has been gaining market share this year at the expense of GM and some Japanese car manufacturers.
福特公司今年一直在扩大自己的市场份额，这导致通用公司和一些日本汽车制造商市场份额减少。
"There seems to be a predominance of short-term thinking at the expense of long-term investing," said Commissioner Daniel Gallagher of the US Securities and Exchange Commission in a speech this week.
本周，美国证交会委员丹尼尔·加拉格尔在一次演讲中表示：“短线思维似乎已占据主导地位 ，其代价是长期投资受损。”
Even high-priced commodities like spices had to be transported in large bulk in order to justify the expense and trouble of sailing around the African continent all the way to India and China.
即使像香料这样的高价商品，也必须大量运输，以证明环绕非洲大陆航行到印度和中国的费用和不便是合理的。
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