This analysis should clearly show the short -, medium -, and long-term cost benefits.

此分析应当清楚地表明短期、中期和长期的成本优势。

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But you end up having a great time and meeting new people. You paid a short-term cost but got a long-term benefit.

但是你最后会玩得很高兴并结识新朋友，你付出了短期的成本但你获得了长期利益。

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To make a long story short, redundancy in systems design is a common technique to increase availability at the cost of additional hardware (and software).

简言之，在系统设计中冗余是提高可用性一个常用技术，代价是增加额外硬件(和软件)。

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They do their research, maybe consult with friends and use low-cost online tools to track and manage their short- and long-term goals.

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There is a simpler way to cut the Gordian knot of rising debt and college costs, one that would help desperate graduates in the short term and lower the cost of college in the long term.

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All these crises are alike in that the bankers play the yield curve and push money out to doubtful borrowers in order to get maximum advantage of the spread between the cost of borrowing short term and lending long term.

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