Maintaining this environment is very costly, and recent research shows that even old oil paint is unaffected by wide fluctuations in temperature and humidity.

维护这样的环境是非常昂贵的，而且最近的研究表明，即使是旧的油画也不会受到温度和湿度大波动的影响。

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The strategy was successful, but very costly.

该策略获得了成功，但是代价不菲。

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It's prevalent, and it can be very very costly.

这是普遍的，而且代价非常非常惨重。

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They are very costly. Or you can buy a copy of a coin for much less money.

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They make it very costly, socially costly, to divorce, so then they stay together for all kinds of reasons, not always such good ones.

离婚社会代价太大，因此双方由于各种原因不分开，不是所有原因都是好的。

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"Having to shear the sheep for wool is actually very costly and labor intensive.

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Although on the other side of the coin Bono wants these very costly tours.

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Not only do raw ideas have little intrinsic value, but they are often very costly.

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But former police authority chairwoman Jacqui Rayment said the role was proving a "very costly experiment".

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