risk-benefit
风险效益
Definitions
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- : involving studies, testing, etc., to establish whether the benefits, as of a course of medical treatment, outweigh the risks involved: to arrive at a risk-benefit ratio.
Examples
Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.
Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.
Two-thirds of those who likely to benefit from the new policy are Mexican.
Not for the benefit of the harasser, of course, but for your own safety.
Politicians who openly associated with Duke, or his hard-core associates, did so at their own risk.
But a lawyer who needed the wherewithal finally condescended to risk the task, and into it he plunged.
As he walked back to his hotel, his head was full of plans for the girl's transient pleasure and lasting benefit.
Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
These oral inanities only served to make Lyn give me the benefit of a look of amused wonder.
Once he permitted himself a digression, that he might point a moral for the benefit of his servant.