Acquisitions that only a few years ago appeared a tad foolhardy now seem super-smart, if expensive.
仅是几年前出于昂贵而稍显鲁莽的购置，如今却显得超智能。
Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?
既然昂贵的东西不能带给我们特大的快乐，为什么对我们还有那么强大的吸引力呢？
If expensive battery capacity could be saved through a low vehicle mass, lightweight measures could be assessed from a new point of view.
假如可通过降低汽车重量节省高昂的电池容量，则可从全新的视角对轻量的量度进行评估。
While a substantial accumulation of reserves seemed a justified (if expensive) form of insurance in the aftermath of the crisis, today's levels look excessive.
虽然在危机之后大量积累外汇储备似乎是个合理的保障方式(尽管有些代价高昂)，但如今的水平看来过高了。
If the latter, there's no need to go to extremes and buy the biggest horse pills or the most expensive bottles.
如果是后者，就没有必要走极端，买最大剂量的大药片或最昂贵的瓶瓶罐罐。
It is possible to holiday at some of the more expensive resorts if you go in the off season.
如果是淡季，就有可能去一些较为昂贵的旅游胜地度假。
For a company in this situation, keeping up to date with the latest technology, even if it's only for the benefit of key staff, this can be hugely expensive.
对于一家处于这种情况下的公司来说，即使只是为了关键员工的利益而跟上最新的技术，也可能是非常昂贵的。
When all the students had a cup of coffee in their hands, the teacher said, "If you noticed, all the nice looking and expensive cups had been taken, but the simple and cheap ones had been left behind.
当所有的学生手里都拿着咖啡杯时，老师说：“如果你们有留意到，就会发现所有好看的和贵的杯子都被拿走了，而简单的和便宜的杯子都被留下了。”
Remember: unless you've had lots of training, you'll likely miss problems, possibly very expensive ones, if you forego a survey.
牢记：如果你放弃检验的话，除非你经过许多培训，否则你极可能会漏掉故障，而且很可能是极其昂贵的故障。
We should be very cautious when buying expensive things and ask ourselves if we are making a wise purchase.
我们在买贵重的东西时一定要小心，问问自己买这样的东西是否明智。
The thing is very expensive. If you don't have hundreds of money you can't buy it.
那东西相当贵，没个千儿八百是买不回来的。
"Complete decoupling is incredibly difficult and expensive, if not impossible," says Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst from the SOA analyst firm ZapThink.
“完全解耦是极其困难和昂贵的，否则就是不可能的，”Ron Schmelzer如是说到，他是ZapThink的高级SOA分析师。
“Breaking news is very, very expensive and if they have the resources to spend on it, we welcome them to the game, ” he added.
“报道突发新闻的成本非常，非常高，如果他们有这个资源投入进来，那我们欢迎他们加入游戏。”他补充道。
Drug and device makers have no reason to finance such trials, because insurers now pay for expensive treatments even if they aren't more effective.
药品和设备制造商没有理由资助这些临床试验，因为保险公司现在为昂贵的治疗费用买单，即使他们不是更有效。
If the initialization is expensive, or the code is called simultaneously from multiple threads, the impact of this repeated creation may still be an issue.
如果初始化的代价高昂，或者从多个线程中同时调用该代码，则这一重复创建的影响仍然可能成为问题。
Indeed, if the bytecode modification is expensive, caching the modified classes has an even greater benefit, as the transformation only ever needs to be performed once.
实际上，如果字节码修改的开销很大，那么对经过修改的类进行缓存有很大的好处，因为变换只需要执行一次。
Ten years ago, a personal website was an expensive proposition, especially if you needed anything professional or polished.
十年前，一个个人网站是十分昂贵的，尤其是当你希望这个网站更加专业、好看。
As you can imagine, this could become a very expensive operation if the database is large.
正如您想象的那样，如果数据库比较大的话，这可能是一项成本高昂的操作。
This may be an especially significant issue if the initialization code is slow or computationally expensive.
如果初始化代码很慢或者需要大量的计算，那么这一特性就显得特别重要。
The drawback is the need for collision handling which will be very expensive if collision are frequent.
缺点是如果冲突时常发生时，解决冲突所需的花费是昂贵的。
Adding new value to existing software can be very expensive if the software is difficult to comprehend.
如果软件十分难以理解，在增加新价值的时候会花费巨大的代价。
Even if training classes are expensive due to the loss of productivity, the need for rooms and trainers, and travel costs, they can lead to increased productivity in the long run.
培训课程会占用用户的工作时间，需要场地、培训师和旅行费用，因此很昂贵；尽管如此，培训能够提高长期的生产力。
The big disadvantage of this ad hoc approach is that it can be extremely slow, and it will be expensive if you do a lot of searching.
这种特别方法的最大缺点在于速度特别慢，而且如果进行许多次搜索的话，成本很高。
Apart from the books she held an elegant and seemingly expensive, if a little old fashioned, handbag.
除了书，她还提着一个款式优雅，看起来价值不菲，但是不算新潮的手提包。
Apart from the books she held an elegant and seemingly expensive, if a little old fashioned, handbag.
除了书，她还提着一个款式优雅，看起来价值不菲，但是不算新潮的手提包。
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