The opportunity cost of spending $17 on a CD is what you would havedone with the $17 instead, and perhaps the value of the time spentshopping.

花17美元买一张CD的机会成本，就是你用这17美元所能做的其他事情，或许还有你购物所花费的时间价值。

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These projects value time to market and cost optimization above the long-term use and flexibility of the application.

相对于长期的使用和应用的灵活性来说，这些项目更看重市场以及费用。

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The value provided should be so visibly more than the cost as to make detailed cost accounting clearly a waste of time.

产出的价值应该会明显高于这种成本，做详尽的成本核算显然是浪费时间。

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Marc says most companies are focused on the cost-per-acquisition (CPA) of a customer instead of the life-time-value (LTV) of customers.

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