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The fact is, unlike those large, city-produced music festivals, your neighborhood street festivals receive no city funding and rely on a combination of sponsorships, vendor fees and gate donations to cover their costs.

事实是，与那些由市政府主办的大型音乐节不同，你们社区的街头节庆得不到任何市政拨款，只能依靠赞助、摊位费和入口捐款等多种来源来支付开销。

We are eliminating a stage, booking fewer performers and making additional cuts to reduce our costs, all while striving to keep the festival as vibrant as ever, as supportive of local artists and businesses, and as true to Wicker Park’s unique spirit and reputation as festgoers have come to expect.

我们撤掉了一个舞台，邀请的表演者也减少了，还进行了其他削减以降低成本，同时努力让节庆一如既往地充满活力、一如既往地支持本地艺术家和商家，并一如既往地保持游客所期待的柳条公园独特精神与声誉。

With no video production costs, illegal streaming sites have achieved profit margins approaching 90%, according to the Motion Picture Association (MPA), a trade group representing Hollywood studios that’s working to crack down on the thousands of illegal platforms that have cropped up in recent years.

据美国电影协会（MPA）称，由于没有视频制作成本，非法流媒体网站的利润率已接近90%；美国电影协会是代表好莱坞各制片公司的行业组织，正致力于打击近年来涌现的数以千计的非法平台。

With more than 6.8 million on waitlists, healthcare is becoming increasingly inaccessible for those who cannot opt to pay for private treatment; and the cost of providing healthcare is increasingly squeezing our investment in other public services.

候诊名单上有超过680万人，对于那些无法选择自费接受私人治疗的人来说，医疗服务越来越难以获得；而提供医疗服务的成本正日益挤压我们对其他公共服务的投入。

The Gutenberg printing press transformed civilisation not by changing the nature of writing but by changing its cost — and it would have achieved little without a parallel collapse in the price of surfaces to write on, thanks to an often-overlooked technology called paper.

古腾堡印刷机改变文明，并非通过改变书写的本质，而是通过改变其成本——而如果没有书写载体价格的同步暴跌，它也难有作为，这要归功于一项常被忽视的技术：纸。

Reduced cost of raw materials.

原材料成本的降低。

lower its wood production costs.

降低木材生产成本。

help scholars publish articles at low cost.

帮助学者以低成本发表文章。

(47) Some believe that AI is negatively impacting on the marketer’s role by reducing creativity and removing jobs, but they are aware that it is a way of reducing costs and creating new information.

(47) 一些人认为，人工智能削弱了创造力、减少了工作岗位，从而对营销人员的角色产生了负面影响，但他们也意识到，它是降低成本、创造新信息的一种方式。

the necessity to lower the costs of fake grass.

降低假草坪成本的必要性。

“There may be costs associated with our increased reliance on the Internet, but I’d have to imagine that overall the benefits are going to outweigh those costs,” observes psychology professor Benjamin Storm.

心理学教授本杰明·斯托姆评论道：“我们对互联网日益依赖，可能会带来一些代价，但我不得不认为，总体而言益处将大于这些代价。

“There may be costs associated with our increased reliance on the Internet, but I’d have to imagine that overall the benefits are going to outweigh those costs,” observes psychology professor Benjamin Storm.

心理学教授本杰明·斯托姆评论道：“我们对互联网日益依赖，可能会带来一些代价，但我不得不认为，总体而言益处将大于这些代价。

Decision-making always involves balancing rewards and risks, benefits and costs.

决策总是涉及权衡奖赏与风险、收益与代价。

Net-zero rules set to send cost of new homes and extensions soaring

净零排放新规将使新房和扩建费用飙升

The moves are the most significant change to building regulations in years, and industry experts say they will inevitably lead to higher prices at a time when a shortage of materials and high labour costs are already driving up bills.

这些举措是多年来对建筑法规最重大的一次修改。业内专家表示，在材料短缺和高昂人工成本已经推高费用之际，这些举措必然会导致价格进一步上涨。

“Whilst admirable in their intentions, they will add to the cost of housebuilding at a time when many already feel that they are priced out of homeownership,” says Jonathan Rolande of the National Association of Property Buyers.

全国购房者协会的乔纳森·罗兰德说：“尽管这些规定的初衷值得称道，但在许多人已经觉得房价高到自己买不起房的时候，它们会增加建房成本。”

“An average extension will probably see around £3,000 additional cost thanks to the new regs.”

“由于新规，一次普通的扩建可能会增加大约3000英镑的费用。”

“As the marketplace adapts to the new requirements, and the technologies that support them, the scaling up of these technologies will eventually bring costs down, but in the short term, we will all have to pay the price of the necessary transition,” he says.

“随着市场适应新的要求以及支持这些要求的技术，这些技术的规模化最终会降低成本，但在短期内，我们都必须为这一必要的转型付出代价，”他说。

“Homeowners will probably recoup that cost over time in energy bill savings.

“随着时间推移，房主很可能会通过节省能源费用收回这笔成本。

at a considerably low cost.

以相当低的成本

rising living costs.

生活成本上升

Brignull identifies 12 types of common dark patterns, ranging from misdirection and hidden costs to “roach motel,” where a user experience seems easy and intuitive at the start, but turns difficult when the user tries to get out.

布里格努尔列出了12种常见的暗黑模式，从误导和隐藏费用到“蟑螂旅馆”不等——所谓“蟑螂旅馆”，是指用户体验一开始看起来简单直观，但当用户想要退出时却变得困难重重。

remind users of hidden costs.

提醒用户注意隐藏费用

It has become a grimly reliable annual ritual: every January the cost of travelling by train rises, imposing a significant extra burden on those who have no option but to use the rail network to get to work or otherwise.

这已成为一项令人沮丧却雷打不动的年度惯例：每年一月，乘火车出行的费用都会上涨，给那些别无选择、只能靠铁路网上班或出行的人带来了沉重的额外负担。

Successive governments have permitted such increases on the grounds that the cost of investing in and running the rail network should be borne by those who use it, rather than the general taxpayer.

历届政府都允许这样的涨价，理由是投资和运营铁路网的成本应由使用者承担，而不是由普通纳税人承担。

Companies can also optimize their own energy use and cut down on the cost of electricity.

企业还可以优化自身的能源使用，降低电力成本。

cost

代价

have driven up labour costs.

推高了劳动力成本。

Publishers have responded to the demand that they make their product free to readers by charging their writers fees to cover the costs of preparing an article.

出版商对“让读者免费获取产品”这一要求的回应是，向作者收取费用以支付文章的编辑成本。

A report last year pointed out that the costs both of subscriptions and of these “article preparation costs” had been steadily rising at a rate above inflation.

去年的一份报告指出，订阅费用和这些“文章编辑成本”都一直在以高于通货膨胀的速度稳步上涨。

A report last year pointed out that the costs both of subscriptions and of these “article preparation costs” had been steadily rising at a rate above inflation.

去年的一份报告指出，订阅费用和这些“文章编辑成本”都一直在以高于通货膨胀的速度稳步上涨。

reduce the cost of publication substantially.

大幅降低了出版成本。

Costs are well controlled.

成本得到了很好的控制。

They also need better public relations skills than their predecessors, as the costs of even a minor slipup can be significant.

他们还需要比前任们更好的公关技能，因为即使一个小小的失误也可能代价巨大。

That’s because they inevitably put the costs of cleaning the air on to individual drivers — who must pay fees or buy better vehicles — rather than on to the car manufacturers whose cheating is the real cause of our toxic pollution.

这是因为这些措施不可避免地把净化空气的成本转嫁给了个体司机——他们必须缴纳费用或购买更好的车辆——而不是转嫁给汽车制造商，而后者的欺骗行为才是造成有毒污染的真正原因。

Unfortunately, the long-term costs of using simple quantitative metrics to assess researcher merit are likely to be quite great.

不幸的是，用简单的量化指标来评估研究人员价值的长期代价可能相当大。

This might mean implementing policy such as a plastic tax that adds a cost to environmentally problematic action, or banning single-use plastics altogether.

这可能意味着实施诸如塑料税之类的政策，为有害环境的行为增加成本，或者干脆全面禁止一次性塑料。

a cost-effective approach.

一种成本效益高的方法。

Meanwhile, it has more than $120 billion in unfunded liabilities, mostly for employee health and retirement costs.

与此同时，它还有超过1200亿美元的无资金准备的负债，主要用于员工的医疗和退休费用。

There’s no change to collective bargaining at the USPS, a major omission considering that personnel accounts for 80 percent of the agency’s costs.

美国邮政署的劳资集体谈判没有任何改变，考虑到人员开支占该机构成本的80%，这是一个重大疏漏。

the cost for technical upgrading.

技术升级的费用。

In December of 1869, Congress appointed a commission to select a site and prepare plans and cost estimates for a new State Department Building. The commission was also to consider possible arrangements for the War and Navy Departments. To the horror of some who expected a Greek Revival twin of the Treasury Building to be erected on the other side of the White House, the elaborate French Second Empire style design by Alfred Mullett was selected, and construction of a building to house all three departments began in June of 1871.

1869年12月，国会任命了一个委员会，为新的国务院大楼选址，并制定规划和成本预算。该委员会还要考虑为陆军部和海军部作出可能的安排。令一些人震惊的是——他们原本期待在白宫另一侧建起一座与财政部大楼如出一辙的希腊复兴式建筑——阿尔弗雷德·马利特设计的精致的法国第二帝国风格方案被选中，一座容纳全部三个部门的大楼于1871年6月开工建设。

The cost of solar panels has dropped by 80 percent and the cost of wind turbines by close to one-third in the past eight years.

在过去八年里，太阳能电池板的成本下降了80%，风力涡轮机的成本下降了近三分之一。

The cost of solar panels has dropped by 80 percent and the cost of wind turbines by close to one-third in the past eight years.

在过去八年里，太阳能电池板的成本下降了80%，风力涡轮机的成本下降了近三分之一。

is not competitive enough with regard to its cost.

在成本方面不够有竞争力。

But Congress should look into doing so directly, by helping to finance PreCheck enrollment or to cut costs in other ways.

但国会应该考虑直接这样做，通过资助“预检”项目的注册或以其他方式削减费用。

the high cost of operation.

高昂的运营成本。

will have the cost of printing reduced.

将降低印刷成本。

But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach (which involves a one-hour, next-to-no-cost program) can close 63 percent of the achievement gap (measured by such factors as grades) between first-generation and other students.

但这篇文章实际上相当乐观，因为它概述了解决这一问题的一个可能方案，提出一种方法（包括一个时长一小时、几乎零成本的项目）可以将第一代大学生与其他学生之间的成就差距（以成绩等因素衡量）缩小63%。

One is the excessive costs of a legal education.

原因之一是法律教育的费用过高。

The other reason why costs are so high is the restrictive guild-like ownership structure of the business.

费用如此之高的另一个原因是这一行业类似行会的限制性所有权结构。

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms’ efficiency.

事实上，允许非律师持有律所股份可以降低成本、改善对客户的服务，因为这会促使律所运用技术，并聘用职业经理人专注于提高律所的效率。

Which of the following adds to the costs of legal education in most American states?

在美国大多数州，下列哪一项增加了法律教育的费用？

lower the costs of registered providers.

降低注册供应商的成本。

lower their operational costs.

降低运营成本。

Stop laughing: it’s not just cost effective but helps you balance your diet.

别笑：这不仅能节省开支，还能帮助你均衡饮食。

As the cost to everyone else has become clearer, politicians have begun to clamp down.

随着其他所有人付出的代价日益明显，政客们开始进行压制。

newspapers wanted to reduce costs.

报纸想要降低成本。

Finally, figures close to the French government have murmured, euro-zone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonisation: eg., curbing competition in corporate-tax rates or labour costs.

最后，接近法国政府的人士还私下表示，欧元区成员国应同意在财政和社会方面进行一定程度的协调，例如抑制在公司税率或劳动力成本上的竞争。

Getting the print edition seven days a week costs nearly $500 a year — more than twice as much as a digital-only subscription.

每周七天订阅印刷版一年要花近500美元——是只订数字版的两倍多。

It cost less than a fiver but she was overjoyed, and couldn’t stop talking about it.

它还不到五英镑，但她欣喜若狂，一直说个不停。