英语释义

1. in a way that harms (something or someone)
Malls flourished at the expense of small stores downtown. He argues that the tax cut will benefit the rich at the expense of the poor.

片语

at the cost of以…为代价

At the expense of environment不惜以牺牲环境为代价

at the expense of banks削弱了银行本身的存在

at the expense of technology减少对技术经费的投入

at the expense of children把儿童牺牲掉

At the expense of sb嘲笑某人

at the expense of nature以自然为代价

At t the expense of以……为代价

over at the expense of以…为代价

found at the expense of以…为代价

英汉例句

• a specific style provides improvement in one or more quality attributes of the application -- usually at the expense of other attributes.

  特定的风格提供对应用程序的一个或多个质量属性的改进——通常以牺牲其他属性为代价。

• this turnaround seems to have come at the expense of those who describe themselves as being without religion.

  这一转变的发生看似是以那些将自己描述为无信仰者（比例的下降）为代价的；

• so scenario planning may focus on four, five, or six scenarios that you can envision, at the expense of others you can’t.

  所以情况规划会将焦点集中在四种、五种、六种你能预想到的情况上，而其他的情况的代价你没法考虑。

• start with an 「intervention」 and explain that status reporting is important, but not at the expense of actually building and testing the product you actually have to ship.

  从一种「干涉」开始，向他解释状态报告很重要，但是不能以牺牲建立和测试你实际要发布的产品为代价。

• this, however, comes at the expense of increased performance overhead.

  然而，这是以增加的性能开销为代价的。

• it is true that in the course of china「s economic development, some companies have pursued profits at the expense of morality.

  在中国经济发展的进程中，一些企业以出让道德的代价追逐利润，这是不争的事实。

• a greedy person may become obsessed with money or prestige at the expense of his health or relationships.

  一个贪婪的人也许变得对金钱或者名望过于着迷而不惜用健康或人际关系作代价。

• however, this comes at the expense of releasing all your personal information to parents should they (or their child) ever want to contact you.

  然而，这样做的代价就是把你的信息全都留给那些父母，他们（或他们的孩子）以后可能想要联系你.

• authentic me wants to have her family in her life, just not at the expense of having the life she wants.

  真实的自我不想牺牲自己想要的生活，同时能按照自己的方式拥有家庭。

• however, this is at the expense of a strange syntax that may leave your colleagues scratching their heads.

  但是，这样做的代价就是，会有一个奇怪的语法令您的同事备受困扰。

• a gift for languages is really no different from perfect pitch or long legs, and it usually comes at the expense of something else.

  语言的天赋和完美的音质或者修长的腿没什么两样，都是天生的，而且通常会以某些其它方面的低能作为代价。

• privy to superior information, banks can charge hefty fees and drive up their own profits at the expense of clients who are induced to take on risks they don’t fully understand—a form of rent seeking.

  由于信息不对称，银行可以收取大额的费用，并通过客户支付费用抬高他们自己的收益，而客户在完全不知情的情况下被诱导而承担风险——这是一种寻租形式。

• its researchers have fiddled with the genes of these so-called energy crops to increase the amount of lignin in them, at the expense of carbohydrates like cellulose.

  其研究者们改变了这些所谓能量作物的基因，以牺牲其如纤维素这样的碳水化合物为代价，来提高它们木质素的含量。

• so instead of redistributing wealth and opportunities, rich regions and individuals benefit at the expense of poorer ones.

  所以并非重新分配财富和机会，而是富裕地区和个人以牺牲穷人的利益来获益。

• usually, this is done at the expense of readability.

  通常，这是以可读性为代价的。

• they also were paid at the expense of rebuilding capital buffers.

  这些奖金的支付也是以牺牲重建资本缓沖为代价的。

• we saw a risk that we would be funding students at the expense of postdoctoral research assistants.

  我们意识到这样一个危机，我们在以博士后研究助手的开支资助那些学生。

• given that interconnection, i do not believe that one country’s success must come at the expense of another.

  鑒于这种相互关联，我不认为一个国家的成功必须以牺牲另一个国家的利益为代价。

• wall street slave: do you really need to make as much money as you’re earning, at the expense of all that stress?

  华尔街奴隶：你是不是真需要你现在能赚到的那么多钱，同时愿意以这种高压作为代价?

• they come from a quality over quantity culture, and want to do their best, but not at the expense of everything else in their lives.

  他们来自于这样一种文化：质量重于数量。他们想做到最好，但绝不是以生活中一切作为代价。

• in that case the politicians’ push for more trade may come at the expense of fair trade.

  在这样的局面下，政客们推动的贸易量的增长只能以公平贸易作为代价。

• saving money, then, need not be at the expense of helping save the planet.

  那么，节省费用不需要以牺牲帮助拯救我们的星球作为代价。

• lower settings reduce the number of connections at the expense of performance.

  较低的设置会减少连接数，但是以性能作为代价。

• even better, these performance improvements don」t come at the expense of performance for other file types.

  更妙的是，这些性能提高并不以其它文件类型的性能损失为代价。

• but critics grumble that the plan protects shareholders at the expense of taxpayers.

  但是危机带来的抱怨是，这项计划是以牺牲纳税人来保护股东的。