付出代价才_有道手机词典

to one's cost

1.只有你为之付出代价，原则才称其为原则。
A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.
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2.然而必须罹患绝症才让我睁开眼看到那真理，可这是这个陷于无情野心，道德沦陷国家能从我付出代价中汲取教训的。
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
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