A little forward planning at the outset can save you a lot of expense.

一开始就为未来作点打算能节约很多开支。

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But globally there is little prospect of a big rise because of the expense.

但在全球范围内，因为费用大幅度上升，大量施用肥料的可能性微乎其微。

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At the expense of defining an additional interface and making the client code a little more verbose, this approach certainly has the edge for me when it comes to code clarity.

虽然代价是定义一个额外接口，还会使客户代码更长一些，但是这项技术对于代码清晰性来说具有优势。

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This thing's nice because rather than do "if" and "and and" or "or or" and all of this, you can instead enumerate things a little more cleanly, albeit apparently at the expense of more white space.

这个东西是不错的，因为它不用“if“和“and，and“,或者“or，or“所有的这些，你可以用枚举来更清楚地表达它，虽然表面上它用了更多的空格。

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It's a little silly to go to the expense of sending out 90 million letters to give a two-week heads-up on the checks going out in the mail.

CNN: Senate Democrat blasts tax rebate letter

For the day, Roberts lost some of his customary equanimity as he brooded about making such a public mistake. (He went to the White House the next day, and the oath was repeated, correctly, to forestall any challenges to its legality.) Since then, Roberts has put the embarrassment behind him and even made it the subject of a little humor at his own expense.

NEWYORKER: No More Mr. Nice Guy

Opera spared little expense to showcase a major overhaul of the Opera Turbo feature, the crowning achievement in the new version.

ENGADGET: Opera 11.10 launched with company's 'most expensive ad ever'