Doctors sometimes prescribe cheaper generic drugs instead of more expensive brand names.
医生有时开比较便宜的非注册商标的药品，而不开比较昂贵的品牌药。
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。
More expensive kites have frames made of aluminium.
更昂贵的风筝有铝制的框架。
Sadly, hiring someone to take care of them while you go to work is getting more expensive by the year.
可悲的是，雇人在你上班的时候照顾他们，这费用一年比一年贵。
As a result, fast-food chains have weathered the recession better than their more expensive competitors.
结果，快餐连锁店比其他价格更高的竞争对手们更好地度过了这一经济衰退时期。
When you get it home you may find that it takes twice as long as a more expensive model to dry your hair.
当你把它买回家后，你可能会发现，吹干头发所需时间是更贵的型号的两倍。
But sadly, hiring someone to take care of them while you go to work is getting more expensive by the year.
但可悲的是，雇人在你上班的时候照顾他们，这费用一年比一年贵。
But when you get it home you may find that it takes twice as long as a more expensive model to dry your hair.
但当你把它带回家后，你可能会发现，吹干头发需要的时间是更贵的型号的两倍。
We should compete with our peers for better scholarly achievement instead of more expensive fashionable clothes.
我们应该和我们的同龄人比拼谁的学术成就更高，而不是攀比谁的潮流时装更贵。
The addition of the bad option made people much more likely to choose the more expensive print plus digital option.
由于这个糟糕选项的存在，人们会更倾向于选择较贵的纸质订阅加数字订阅这个套餐。
As the years went on, the bicycles became bigger and more expensive but remained just as important for those family bicycle rides.
随着时间的推移，自行车变得更大，更贵，但对于那些骑自行车的家庭成员仍然一样重要。
Equivalent German models tend to be heavier and slightly less easy to use, while the American versions are considerably more expensive.
同等的德国型号往往更重，使用起来稍微不那么容易，而美国型号则要贵得多。
It would be more liberating to pack it all off to a laundry and not necessarily more expensive, since no capital investment is required.
全部打包送去洗衣店会更自由，也不一定更贵，因为不需要资本投资。
It's also a potential economic problem, since a declining dollar makes imported food more expensive and exerts upward pressure on interest rates.
这也是一个潜在的经济问题，因为美元贬值使进口食品更加昂贵，并对利率产生上行压力。
Consumers planning to buy recreational equipment tend to buy higher quality, more expensive equipment when the economy is strong than when it is weak.
计划购买娱乐设备的消费者往往会在经济强劲时购买质量更高、更昂贵的设备，而不是在经济疲软时购买。
The average student's debt upon graduation now approaches $40,000, and as college becomes ever more expensive, calls to make it "free" are multiplying.
现在，学生毕业时的平均债务接近4万美元，随着大学变得越来越贵，要求大学“免费”的呼声越来越高。
During the recession companies set prices low, hoping that once they had tempted customers through the door they would be persuaded to order more expensive items.
在经济衰退期间，公司把价格定得很低，希望一旦他们吸引顾客进门，就能说服顾客订购更贵的商品。
The company's shipping manager is proposing that customer orders be packed with newer, more expensive packing materials that virtually eliminate damage during shipping.
该公司的货运经理建议，客户的订单应该用更新、更昂贵的包装材料包装，这样几乎可以消除运输过程中的损坏现象。
Broadband is still more expensive than dial-up services.
宽带还是要比拨号服务费钱得多。
At first glance, organic farming looks much more expensive for the farmer.
乍一看，有机耕作对农民来说似乎昂贵得多。
Electric cars themselves are more expensive.
电动汽车本身更加昂贵。
Water is much more expensive than gold and diamonds.
水比黄金和钻石贵得多。
Unluckily, almost every green technology is more expensive than that of using gasoline.
不幸的是，几乎所有的环保技术都比使用汽油的技术要贵。
Tokyo is about one third more expensive than Karachi, which is the least expensive city among the 214 cities.
东京的生活成本大约比卡拉奇高三分之一，卡拉奇是214个城市中生活成本最低的城市。
Goods can be returned with no questions asked, although it can be more expensive than other shops in the area.
商品可以无条件退回，但价格比该地区的其他商店要贵。
He knows that universities are becoming more and more expensive each year and that many people think higher education is no longer affordable.
他知道上大学一年比一年贵，很多人认为快负担不起高等教育了。
It is reported that more and more people prefer to buy organic food even though it is more expensive.
据报道，越来越多人喜欢购买有机食品，尽管它们更贵些。
Taxes on alcohol make it more expensive to get drunk, which reduces excessive drinking and impaired driving.
对酒的征税使得人们醉酒的代价更高，从而减少了过度饮酒和酒后驾驶的行为。
While a ketch offers these advantages to cruisers, they may also be more expensive because of the added mast and sail.
尽管双桅帆给水手们提供了这些优势，它们也因为这额外的桅杆和船帆而造价更加昂贵。
We'd have to take the big trucks apart and then put them back together again, slower than a ferry and a lot more expensive.
我们必须把大卡车拆开，然后把它们重新组装起来，比渡轮慢得多也贵得多。
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