falling in love comes at the cost of losing close friends, because romantic partners absorb time that would otherwise be invested in platonic relationships, researchers say.

研究人员称，坠入爱河的代价是失去两个亲密的朋友，因为你的恋人会占据本该被投入朋友之间相处的时间。

this extension increases data integrity and reduces deadlocks at the cost of reduced concurrency by holding locks for longer periods of time.

此扩展用维持更长时间的锁定来减少并发的代价提高数据完整性和减少死锁。

this may generate more ad revenue but comes at the cost of your users’ trust, as they click on things they thought were genuine content.

这会带来更多的广告收入但是会以你的用户的信任为代价，因为他们点击他们认为真的是内容的东西。

this structure does provide good cross-platform portability, but at the cost of high cpu overhead and lower performance.

这样的结构确实带来了好的跨平台可移植性，但付出的代价是高cpu开销和较低的性能。

the rr isolation level ensures maximum data integrity at the cost of high performance.

rr隔离级别保证了最大程度的数据集成，同时以高性能为代价。

conversely, ur ensures the highest level of performance at the cost of some data inconsistency.

相反，ur保证了最高的性能，但以一部分数据并发性为代价。

moreover it took japan nearly ten years to climb out of the mistake at the cost of well over 100 trillion yen in additional public debt.

此外，日本花了近十年时间才以花费超过100兆日元额外公共债务的代价从这个错误中走出来。

in other words, search engines make money at the cost of inconvenience of most internet users, but not its high quality of search service.

换句话说，搜索引擎赚钱是以牺牲多数互联网用户的便利为代价，而不是它的高质量搜索服务。

robust consumer spending has boosted gdp growth, but at the cost of a negative personal saving rate, a growing burden of house¬hold debt and a huge current-account deficit.

强劲的消费支出刺激了gdp增长，但增长的代价是个人储蓄利率呈负数、家庭负债越来越重和经常项目的巨额赤字。

this forward escape would only temporarily postpone the solution of the problems at the cost of making them far more serious later (this is precisely what happened in the crisis of 2001).

这种往后推延只能暂时推迟问题的解决，代价是之后的问题会更严重（这种情况发生于2001年的危机）。

by using stale metaphors, similes, and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.

使用陈腐的暗喻、明喻和习语，你省了不少思考的力气，代价是你的意义的模糊，不仅对读者，也对你自己模糊。

economic growth must not be achieved at the cost of environment or resources.

发展经济决不能以破坏环境、浪费资源为代价。

in summary, clob storage offers good performance for insert and full document retrieval, typically at the cost of poor search and extract performance.

总之，clob存储为插入和全文档检索操作提供了优秀的性能，这通常是以搜索和提取性能下降为代价的。

the solution made a tradeoff of consistency of results, and reducing the possibility of deadlocks, at the cost of potentially accessing corrupt state.

这一解决方案在结果的一致性、降低死锁的可能性和对访问被破坏状态可能付出的代价方面，做出了折 衷。

there is no sense developing industry at the cost of the environment.

如果以环境为代价来发展工业是毫无道理的。

the mark-compact algorithm combines mark-sweep and copying in a way that avoids this problem, at the cost of some increased collection complexity.

标记-整理算法结合了标记-清除和复制，避免了这个问题，代价是增加了一些收集复杂性。

personalization is important, but do not add it to your application at the cost of usability, nor allow it to impede the implementation of something like support for internationalization.

个性化很重要，但是不要将其添加到应用程序中而损失可用性，也不要让它妨碍国际化支持之类的实现。

the loss of competitiveness can be reversed (ireland is doing it), but only at the cost of a long-term decline in wages and demand, which will require in turn even more fiscal retrenchment.

竞争缺失可以修复（爱尔兰正在这样做），但要付出工资和需求长期下跌的成本，这样一来势必需要做出更多财政紧缩。

but any long term gain could come at the cost of short-term employment losses.

不过，任何长期的升值都可能以短期就业岗位减少为代价。

do not give in to their demands at the cost of your own.

别为了满足于他们的要求而以牺牲自己为代价。

electorates are likely to chafe at the cost of bringing down government deficits, especially if the main result is to repay foreign creditors.

以削减赤字为代价有可能会激怒选民，特别是在赤字是用于偿还外债的情况下。

the thin film allows batteries to charge and recharge quickly, but at the cost of significant degrading over time.

这个薄膜为了让电池能够更快地充电，但是这以其最终会明显退化为代价。

others want their laptop to have the biggest screenthey can get, at the cost of portability.

另一些人则希望在他们的笔记本上得到尽可能大的屏幕，即使付出便携性的代价。

the new regime will be more balanced, but at the cost of lower purchasing power for western consumers.

新机制将更加平衡，然而，代价是西方消费者购买力的降低。

fixing a trivial issue at the cost of a serious one is not good for anyone.

用修复严重问题的代价去修复一个小问题对谁都没好处。