The garden was transformed at great expense.

花园改建花了一大笔费用。

The rooms were equipped at great expense.

装备这些房间花费很高。

Rich countries police some oceans, but at great expense.

一些富裕国家管辖着一些海洋，但花费巨大。

Land was occupied before critical infrastructure was put in, often at great expense.

土地在重要基建开工前就已经被占，这通常代价也是巨大的。

Land was occupied before critical infrastructure was put in, often at great expense.

在主要的基础设施兴建之前，土地就已被大量占用，通常是花费巨大地代价。

Most companies are keen on transforming their existing middleware to an SOA platform, often at great expense.

大多数公司热衷于将它们现有的中间件转换为SOA平台，通常这需要花费很大的代价。

But facts have proved that sending children to a famous school at great expense is not always a wise choice.

但是，事实已经证明，花昂贵的费用把孩子送到名校并非总是明智的选择。

This is not just theory; it is a lesson we learned, at great expense, during the Savings and Loan crisis of the 1980s.

这不只是理论；它是我们经历了1980年代的储贷危机以巨大的代价所习得的教益。

The alternative is to liquefy the hydrogen at great expense and transport it in road tankers refrigerated with liquid nitrogen.

一个替代的办法是以巨大的代价把氢气液化，并用带液氮冷却的罐车运输。

The alternative is to liquefy the hydrogen at great expense and transport it in road tankers refrigerated with liquid nitrogen.

唯一的代替方法是花大价钱用液氮作为冷却剂液化氢气，用罐车从公路上运输。

It is hard to claim that pyramid-shaped tea-bags (developed at great expense over four years) have added much to the sum of human happiness.

对于金字塔状的茶叶包(开发花费巨大且历时超过四年)，你很难要求它为人类幸福总和增添什么。

London's orbital M25 motorway, for example, is only 20 years old, and has been expanded at great expense to 12 lanes wide in some places.

比如，伦敦的M25高速，刚建好20年，就不得不花巨资在某些路段拓宽为12车道。

That way you can save money and make sure your programme will be effective prior to rolling out any public health campaign at great expense.

这种方式不仅可以节省开支，并且可以确保你的计划比其它任何大动干戈组织的公共健康活动效果显著。

The building is aging-and not gracefully. Structural elements like a roof or plumbing system may need replacing at great expense to the owner.

您的房子太老了，也不好看。屋顶和管道都要花很多钱去更换。

But microprocessors were seen as highly specialised - designed at great expense only to be used by a few manufacturers in a handful of machines.

与之相比，微处理器是高度定制化的——其设计本身很昂贵，并且仅仅适用于部分制造商的部分产品。

These involve filtering out the carbon dioxide that is found along with the natural gas from two of its fields, and pumping it back underground at great expense.

这些方案包括将在其两块油田开发出的天然气顺带的二氧化碳过滤，并不惜一切代价将这些二氧化碳传输到地底下。

Museums have raised historic aircraft from salt water in good condition and at great expense only to see them crumble to white powder in a matter of months.

博物馆，咸水状况良好。

Substance must always take precedence over style, but poorly presented content runs the risk of confusing the users it was meant (often at great expense) to serve.

实质必须始终优先于形式，但是表示上欠佳的内容具有风险，可能导致用户对内容预期要达到（通常是以很大的代价）的目的感到混淆。

Of course, once the final whistle has blown and the television crews have dispersed, the pitches will need to be resown at great expense with grass fit for South African conditions.

当然，一旦终场哨声吹响，电视机前的观众散去的时候，还得花费高昂的费用在球场上重新播种更适合南非本土条件的草地。

Peter the Great expands territory beyond the Euro mountains along the Caspian Sea at the expense of the Turks.

彼得大帝越过欧洲山脉，沿着里海扩张领土，牺牲了土耳其人的利益。

He fears that "once again California would be the great experiment for the rest of the world at the expense of public safety, community health and common sense."

他担心加州又要成为“小白鼠”，而代价则是公共安全与卫生以及道德底线。

It is great that closer alliance between SOA and cloud computing is illuminating the importance of run-time SOA governance, but doing this at the expense of design-time governance does not seem right.

SOA和云计算之间的紧密合作点亮了运行时SOA治理的重要性，这固然很好，但是为了它而忽视了设计时治理似乎有失妥当。

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

国家是一部的伟大剧本，剧中的每个人为了生存不惜牺牲其它任何人。

Opened with great fanfare, not to mention eye-wateringly wasteful expense, at the end of 2008, the hotel boasts some quality restaurants and an admittedly great water park.

2008年底，亚特兰蒂斯酒店在嘹亮的号角声中开业了，花费巨大。酒店标榜拥有高档餐厅和公认美丽的水上公园。

Love is great. The stone loves the flower so much that he does not want her to know that she lives at the expense of him. He just keep silent and supply everything for her.

爱是伟大的。石头爱花朵爱的如此之深，以至于他不想让她知道她是以牺牲他的代价而活着。石头仅仅保持着沉默，并为花朵提供一切她所要的。

Plan for win-win success. Great business relationships occur when both parties succeed. If you expand your business at the expense of a customer, you eventually lose that customer.

成功的商业关系会让双方都能从中获益，如果你以损害客户的利益为代价来扩展业务，那你终将失去这个客户。

In this vacation land wage earners' families are welcome to spend the weekend, which means great enjoyment at small expense.

本度假村欢迎工薪家庭来此度周末，花费不多，无穷享受。