costlier

英 [ˈkɒstlɪə] 美 [ˈkɔstliər]

adj.  花钱多的; 昂贵的; 价钱高的; 引起困难的; 造成损失的
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  1. ADJ-GRADED 昂贵的;价格高的
    If you say that something is costly, you mean that it costs a lot of money, often more than you would want to pay.
    1. Having professionally made curtains can be costly, so why not make your own?
      既然找专门人员做窗帘非常贵，为什么不自己做呢?
  2. ADJ-GRADED 造成严重损失的;代价大的
    If you describe someone's action or mistake as costly, you mean that it results in a serious disadvantage for them, for example the loss of a large amount of money or the loss of their reputation.
    1. Psychometric tests can save organizations from grim and costly mistakes...
      心理测试能够使组织机构避免犯下损失惨重的大错。
    2. This sort of scandal in international banking has been politically costly.
      国际银行业的这种丑闻一直以来都会造成极其恶劣的政治影响。
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双语例句

  1. Things were different& slower, costlier, stuck in red tape, less tangible, less experimental.
    从此，情况有了变化&速度下降，成本上升，受到繁文缛节的束缚，不那么实际，也不那么有试验性。
  2. Also likely to be axed: A new'ecological plastic'that emits less carbon dioxide over the course of its life than more traditional alternatives, but which is costlier to produce.
    同样可能受到抛弃的还有：一种在使用过程中可比传统替代品排出更少二氧化碳的新型“生态塑料”，但它的生产成本过于昂贵。
  3. Doing so would please many investors and analysts who say the bank's parts would be worth more than the whole, but such a plan might be costlier than people think.
    如果他这么做了，无疑将取悦许多认为花旗部分资产比整体资产更有价值的投资者及分析师，但他要是真的实施这一计划，其成本恐怕要超出人们想像。
  4. It spawned technological advances, but led to cars that were often costlier to produce.
    这一变革带来了技术进步，但却常常推高了丰田汽车的生产成本。
  5. If they default on their debt, that only makes it harder and costlier to borrow in the future.
    如果他们出现债务违约，只会使将来举债更加困难，成本也更高。
  6. Generally, the convenience of cities makes them costlier.
    一般来说，城市生活的便利也使它更加昂贵。
  7. Based on how fast the mice sipped, they appeared to find the costlier sugar water more tasty.
    根据它们喝水的速度推断，看来老鼠们觉得代价更高的糖水味道更好。
  8. Space limitations may also make parking costlier in the city.
    空间的限制可能也会使城市中的停车费更贵。
  9. Such attenuated live vaccines can be more effective, but are costlier to produce.
    这种减毒活疫苗更有效但生产成本也很昂贵。
  10. The more code you have, the costlier it will be to add anything new.
    你拥有的代码越多，添加新内容所要付出的成本就越高。
  11. Visas to the UK are costlier, more complicated and take longer to process than the Schengen visa, which grants access to 26 European countries.
    赴英签证与可进入26个欧洲国家的申根签证（schengen）相比，花销更高、更复杂、处理时间也更长。
  12. It argues that the surge of oil prices through costlier fertilizer and diesel is having a greater impact on food prices.
    该机构指出，油价飙升对食品价格的影响更大，因为它推高了化肥和柴油价格。
  13. Starting a thread is slightly costlier than before but most of the code can run in parallel after.
    启动一个线程的开销比之前稍微高一点，但之后大部分代码都能并行运行。
  14. The idea is that this would make French products more competitive, and imports costlier a sort of pseudo-devaluation.
    法国政府的想法是，此举将提高本国产品的竞争力，同时让进口产品变得更昂贵这是一种“伪贬值”。
  15. The dead zone drives shrimp farther out to sea, making it costlier and more time-consuming to catch them.
    死亡地带把虾赶往更远的海洋，进而需花更多成本，更多时间来捕捞它们。
  16. It is obviously costly and risky if we do that, but the only thing likely to be costlier and riskier is a Libya in which a government is not in control of its own territory.
    如果我们这样做的话，显然会代价高昂且风险很高，但一个没有将自己的领土控制在手中的利比亚政府可能将是唯一一件比这代价更高、风险更大的事情。
  17. Exiting too early is costlier than exiting too late, he said this week.
    太早退出比太晚退出的代价高，斯特劳斯-卡恩本周表示。
  18. The theory of "efficiency wages" says that firms which cannot monitor workers'efforts well should instead pay high wages to make it costlier for them to risk being sacked.
    “效率工资”理论指的是不能够很好的监控员工的努力程度的公司应该付高工资让他们不能承担被解雇的风险。
  19. India's approach, however, yesterday drew a strong rebuke from two senior, Indian-born officials of the Asian Development Bank, highlighting concerns among international institutions that costlier food is leading to trade protectionism and new market distortions.
    然而，印度的举动昨日遭到了亚行两位印裔高级官员的强烈指责。这突显出，国际组织担心食品价格上涨将引发贸易保护主义和新的市场扭曲。
  20. Like enriched uranium, hypocrisy can be costlier than it seems.
    就如浓缩铀，伪善的代价比看起来的更高。
  21. This will make the regulatory process longer and costlier for the company, with a high risk of TI suffering the same fate as the other drugs.
    这样将会造成公司的管理过程更加长，花费更加大，遭受和其他药品一样的命运而承受高度的风险。
  22. Latinos are especially fond of dogs, which are costlier than cats, but superior in every respect.
    拉美人特别喜欢狗，养狗成本要比猫高一些，但优越性也显而易见。
  23. The alternative higher interest rates and big budget deficits would mean larger, costlier debts.
    因为如果选择提高利率扩大预算赤字，政府将会面临更重的债务负担。
  24. Polio eradication efforts may seem costlier than controlling the disease, but they will ultimately reduce costs and the number of cases, say researchers.
    科学家们说，根除脊髓灰质炎（俗称小儿麻痹症）的举措可能看上去比控制脊髓灰质炎更昂贵，但是前者最终会降低脊髓灰质炎造成的费用和发病人数。
  25. A high exchange value makes Japanese exports costlier and less competitive.
    高汇率会使日本出的口产品价格昂贵，竞争力减弱。
  26. But if those measures are passed, America risks something far costlier than a switch to cleaner energy: a global trade war.
    但是如果那些政策得以通过的话，美国就会面临比使用清洁能源成本要更高的风险：全球贸易战。
  27. Vocational training at technical institutes will be costlier.
    技术学院和职业培训相对要贵些。
  28. In sum, slower world economic growth and scarcer and costlier capital will mean a more difficult environment for developing countries.
    总之，世界经济增速放缓，资本更加稀缺且成本上升，这些意味着发展中国家将面临更困难的环境。在这种环境中，各国提升资源使用效率和提高生产率的努力至关重要。
  29. However, there is an exemption for trading in US government securities but not other sovereigns, so it could reduce liquidity in non-US sovereign markets, making it more difficult, costlier and riskier for countries to issue and distribute debt.
    然而，对美国国债交易却网开一面（而其他国家国债则不可以），因此这可能会减少非美国国债市场的流动性，加大其他国家发行和销售债券的难度、成本和风险。
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