Let's be practical and work out the cost first.

咱们实际一点儿，先计算一下成本费用。

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Try cutting down the cost first.

开始先尝试削减成本。

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This would cover the cost of making all twelve shows in the first season for the first year.

这将包括在第一年制作第一季共十二场剧目的成本。

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A recent story in a local agricultural newspaper said the first robot cost one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

The first improvements will cost twenty million dollars.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

It's cost our first quarter figures to be below what we have budgeted for."

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The most important decisions that would create the most learning at the lowest cost would go first.

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Unemployment may not fall even that far, because increased flexibility and competition may at first cost jobs.

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The ability to reallocate cost savings to first-order priorities makes corporations more nimble.

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