1. A cake of soap doesn´t cost much.
    一块肥皂花不了多少钱。

2. As the time and cost of making a chip drop to a few days and a few hundred dollars,
    由于制造一块芯片的时间已缩短至几天，费用也只有几百美元，

3. As a result, such books actually have more effect in the communities where they are used than government publications, which cost thousands of dollars more to produce.
    这样一来，这些书在使用它们的社区里所产生的影响要比政府出版的书籍更大，而政府出版的书籍成本要高出数千美元。

4. And today, some will wonder whether they cost $10 or $100.
    而现在，有人要猜想这花是10美元还是100美元了。

5. "While I'm in the airport, I ask three or four people to get an idea for how much it will cost to get to my destination," he explains.
    "在机场时，我向三四个人打听到我的目的地要花多少钱，"他解释说，

6. "While attendance is very strong," he said, "our cost levels do require adjustment for the current revenue level."
    "尽管游客数量相当大，"他说，"可我们的成本支出的确需要根据当前的收益状况做出调整。"

7. Such administrative overhead in a business is analogous to the cost of government in a nation.
    一家企业的行政管理性费用与一个国家政府的开销是类似的。

8. Such administrative overheads in a business are analogous to the cost of government in a nation.
    一家企业的行政管理开支类似于一个国家的政府管理所用的开支。

9. Sometimes they feel they have to — at any cost.
    有时他们觉得自己必须作弊--而且不惜一切代价。

10. Stevens makes this observation: "The personal cost of policing has never been so high.
    史蒂文斯这样评论道："警务的人力成本从未如此之高，