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The garden was transformed at great expense.

花园改建花了一大笔费用。

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。

Your call might be directed to Salt Lake City, to the Philippines or to India, but it is likely going to a brick and mortar facility at a great expense to the company at hand.

您的电话可能会被引导到盐湖城，菲律宾或印度，但有可能是去砖和迫击炮设施在一个巨大的费用，该公司在手。

Second, my emergency break had never worked properly in spite of having it repaired at great expense a week earlier.

第二，我的紧急刹车从来都没有好好工作过，尽管我一个月钱刚花了一大笔钱把它修了下。

It also fears it could lose control of or even access to some technology Opel developed at great expense, such as clean diesel engines.

它也担心失去对欧宝的控制，甚至是一些欧宝花费巨资开发的技术，比如清洁柴油发动机。

It is quite possible that somewhere in your life you felt threatened by not meeting standards that someone set for you and you strove very hard to meet those standards, possibly at great expense of interpersonal relationships and personal development.

很有可能在生活的某个方面，你感到没有达到某个人为你设定的标准，而你非常努力要达到那些标准，。。的威胁。。有可能以人际关系、个人发展的巨大代价。

The rooms were equipped at great expense.

装备这些房间花费很高。

Conference rooms were equipped at great expense.

会议用房间装备齐全花费很大。

Instead of heating a whole greenhouse,at great expense,why not simply warm the nutrient solution that bathes their roots?

代替加热一个整个的温室，在很棒的费用，为什么不只是温暖营养的解决沭浴他们的根？

In the spring of 1996, a book was published telling the supposedly true story of an elderly millionaire who, at great expense, succeeded in producing a clone--an exact genetic copy of himself.

1996年的春天，已经发行的一本书讲述一个据说是真实的故事，一个老年的百万富翁花费巨资，成功的生产出一个克隆，一个完全的他自己的基因复制。

3 One of these days, I'll talk him out of his pipe dream for sure.

总有一天我一定会劝止他的白日梦。

Both government and bank owned TICs thus originated as extensions of their owners' operations.

政府和银行同时拥有着中国的信托公司并且也同时控制着他们的运做。