Most people wouldn't ever mail a letter or get a letter--too expensive, not to count only the paper and everything was expensive.

大多数人可能从未寄过信,或是收过信，因为太贵了，不单单是纸贵,什么东西都贵。

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but sometimes, if it's too expensive, I don't think it's justified to buy organic.

不过有时候，如果太贵了，买有机食品就不划算了。

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Maybe it's a tradition, maybe it's to keep the value kind of in a familiar range or a small-- they don't want them to get too expensive because people can't-- small investors can't afford them anymore.

也许是传统使然,也许是为了将价值维持在一个惯常的小区间内,他们不想让价格升得太高,因为人们,小投资者无法承担过高价格

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Some people say that the cost of software is too expensive

有的人说软件太贵了，

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They thought we were too expensive.

认为这是狮子大开口。

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It seems too expensive.

这似乎太贵了。

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And then you realize that you've put on your most expensive pair of shoes this mooring, and if you stop to take them off, it might be too late and the child might drown.

你意识到你正穿着,你最贵的一双鞋，但是，如果你停下来脱鞋，就来不及救这个小孩，小孩可能会溺死。

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I think so. But video phone has been very hard to achieve. It's either been to be expensive, or too crowded, or can we use the internet to finally introduce video phone and this is different from video on-demand.

我也这么认为，但视频电话要成功很困难,它要么很贵，要么很拥堵，或者我们是否可以使用互联网引入视频电话,这与随需视频是不同的。

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Oftentimes, inventions that seem, in the abstract, to be good ideas may be impossible because something that you have to do to make it actually come into practice is too expensive and so it's not economic to produce the invention.

通常在理论上,创新固然不错,但却很难实现,因为把创意变成现实,花费会相当的昂贵,实现这样的创意非常不合算

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