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prove too costly to be implemented.
实施成本过高。
The idea that one might burn down an entire house just to reclaim the nails underlines how scarce, costly and valuable the simple-seeming technology was.
人们会为了回收钉子而烧掉整座房子，这一做法凸显了这项看似简单的技术在当时是多么稀缺、昂贵和宝贵。
will be too costly to put into practice.
实施起来成本太高。
our reliance on the Internet will be costly.
我们对互联网的依赖将代价高昂。
costly.
代价高昂
Because employment protection laws make it costlier to fire an employee, employers are more cautious about hiring new staff.
由于就业保护法使解雇员工的成本更高，雇主在招聘新员工时更加谨慎。
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France’s planned tax is a clear warning: Unless a broad consensus can be reached on reforming the international tax system, other nations are likely to follow suit, and American companies will face a cascade of different taxes from dozens of nations that will prove burdensome and costly.
法国计划征收的这项税是一个明确的警告：除非能在改革国际税收体系上达成广泛共识，否则其他国家很可能会效仿，美国公司将面临来自数十个国家的一连串不同税收，这将带来沉重的负担和高昂的成本。
It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but depending on the school, it can be costly to make up credits after switching too late in the game.
这不一定是坏事，但视学校而定，转专业太晚的话，补修学分的代价可能很高。
But at least they have demonstrated that when companies get into trouble with the law, evidence of good character can win them a less costly punishment.
但至少他们已经证明，当公司惹上官司时，良好品行的证据能为它们赢得代价较小的惩罚。
Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance-lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare.
他们当中许多人反而成了专门提起滋扰性诉讼的人，使侵权法体系变成了代价高昂的噩梦。