cost of living
生活费用,生活成本,生活费,活着的成本
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- : the average cost of food, clothing, and other necessary or usual goods and services paid by a person, family, etc., or considered as a standard by the members of a group.
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Patrick Klugman, the deputy mayor of Paris, said: “We are living our kind of 9/11,” he said.
Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.
“The sensation these objects presented receded as their cost increased,” notes Rabinowitz.
Last week I turned 40, a bittersweet occasion because I crossed the line to living longer without my mother than with her.
Like him, they identified the Airbus A320 as an airplane extremely well fitted to low cost airline operations in Asia.
Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.
To be so humbled in the knowledge of any living being, was the vultures of Prometheus to the proud heart of Ripperda.
They feel that the system has few advantages to offer in return for the cost it entails upon them.
The living (value £250) is in the gift of trustees, and is now held by the Rev. M. Parker, Vicar.
He became a doctor in two hours, and it only cost him twenty dollars to complete his education.