An expensively acquired position of market power was trashed for no return.

这样一次代价高昂的希望获取市场地位的努力，因为毫无回报而告终。

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He backed an overdue scheme to place more emphasis on rehabilitating criminals and less on expensively locking them up-until the tabloids objected and he took fright.

他支持一项迟到的计划，在这项计划中，会更加重视重新恢复罪犯的名誉，减少把罪犯关住的昂贵支出。直到小报反对，他才大吃一惊。

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As Cyclacel has also recently found, this is an expensively litigious business in an expensively litigious country.

BBC: Letter from America: Buy and cell

It is said that Mr Cameron an expensively educated sort with aristocratic in-laws acts as if born to rule.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

But his ambitious plans for Chelsea Village, an expensively assembled hotel and shopping complex, helped to saddle the club with large debts.

BBC: Chelsea players