1·You want to avoid costly legal proceedings if you can.
如果能够的话你希望避免昂贵的法律诉讼。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·That lets us avoid building costly plants or buying expensive power at peak usage time.
这样我们就可以避免在用电高峰期建造昂贵的电厂或购买昂贵的电力。
3·Too long a sentence will take up costly space better used for the violent and unremorseful.
太长的句子会占用昂贵的空间，而这些空间可以被更好地用于暴力和无情的人。
4·In Fenchurch Street a fair child, in costly apparel, stood on a stage to welcome his Majesty to the city.
在芬切琪街，一个穿着昂贵衣服的漂亮孩子站在舞台上，欢迎国王陛下来到这座城市。
5·Indeed, the purple colour extracted from a snail was once so costly that in society at the time only the rich could afford it.
的确，从蜗牛身上提取的紫色物质曾经非常昂贵，在当时的社会，只有富人才能买得起。
1·Animal signals, such as the complex songs of birds, tend to be costly.
动物发出的信号，如鸟类复杂的鸣叫声，往往代价高昂。
2·In contrast, there is solid evidence of serious and common harms, and the screening programme is very costly.
与之相比，关于乳腺癌筛选的害处倒是证据确凿，而且做筛选的费用非常高昂。
3·Last week, they irritated the president by introducing a raft of amendments to a bill to phase out costly subsidies.
上周，保守派对逐步废除高昂补贴的法案提出了大量的修改意见，这激怒了内贾德。
4·Civil wars are so costly that well-timed military actions are quite likely (though not certain) to be cost-effective.
内战的代价如此高昂，因此，适时的军事行动很可能是成本有效的(尽管这不是必然的)。
5·Another complaint, that costly fuel will stall the economy, makes it tempting to delay another tax rise-after all, Mr Osborne, enamoured of austerity, also seeks growth.
另一种抱怨，高昂的燃油费将使经济停滞，从而使推迟了其他的税收增加，毕竟，对于例行节约的奥斯本大臣，也在寻求增长。