To many, the costs may not even appear to be financial at all, but merely aesthetic—a terrible shame, but nothing to do with money.

对许多人来说，这些损失可能根本不是财务上的问题，而仅仅是审美上的问题——这是一种可怕的耻辱，但与金钱无关。

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Do your job well, and avoid confrontations at all costs.

把你的工作做好，不惜任何代价避免正面冲突。

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If what you want is possible, you may want to do it at all costs.

如果你所希望的是有可能实现得了的，那么你有可能会不惜一切地去实现它。

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If they made the unfortunate decision to do something differently, we did not want -- we wanted at all costs to avoid the pain that would obviously be caused by a celebration or some sort of welcome befitting a hero, not a terrorist and a murderer, in Libya.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

So, with all this data and personal experience, why do we continue to reward a system that pushes life-at-all-costs instead of quality of life?

FORBES: Why 5% of Patients Create 50% of Health Care Costs

Can a leopard change its spots, do the modern demands of F1 mean McLaren have adopted a win-at-all-costs strategy?

BBC: Coulthard on Hamilton row