The suit was eventually settled in January 2001, at a cost to Microsoft of $20m, but by then it was irrelevant.

这起诉讼最终在2001年1月终结，微软赔付了2000万美元。

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However, at lower discount rate and heavy traffic flow the initial cost of construction is in essence irrelevant.

然而，在折限率较低与交通量大的情况下，从本质上讲，与建设的最初成本没有关系。

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The cost benefit of VCT networks was irrelevant.

VCT网络成本与效益不匹配。

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Paul Miller of Friedman Billings Ramsey, an investment bank, says a government bad bank can pay more for assets than a private investor because its cost of funds is irrelevant, it needs no capital and can hold the assets to maturity.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

Predictably, pain-free financing means that to most French patients the cost of their treatment is irrelevant, while they lead the world in the number of times they go into hospital, and swallow more pills than any other nation on earth, bar the Japanese.

ECONOMIST: Health care in France

So cost-benefit analysis is rarely dispositive, but to say that costs are irrelevant is just misguided.

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