Medicare could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if everyone used the cheaper drug, Avastin, instead of the costlier one, Lucentis.

如果每个人都使用更便宜的药物安维汀，而不是更昂贵的雷珠单抗，那么医疗保障每年就可以节省数亿美元。

Because employment protection laws make it costlier to fire an employee, employers are more cautious about hiring new staff.

由于就业保护法使解雇雇员的成本更高，雇主在雇佣新员工时会更加谨慎。

But low-expansion glass is much costlier than soda-lime glass.

但是低膨胀的玻璃比碱石灰玻璃可贵多了。

The more code you have, the costlier it will be to add anything new.

你拥有的代码越多，添加新内容所要付出的成本就越高。

Both tasks turned out to be harder and costlier than Rolls-Royce thought.

后来证明，两项任务比劳斯莱斯所设想的要更难更费钱。

Though costlier, xenon allows a discharge lamp to start far more quickly.

尽管成本高，氙气能够迅速启动发电灯管。

Utilities often favor such systems, also called solar thermal, over costlier PV.

公用事业很支持这样的系统，也称为太阳热能，比光伏太阳能昂贵。

It spawned technological advances, but led to cars that were often costlier to produce.

这一变革带来了技术进步，但却常常推高了丰田汽车的生产成本。

That would prompt long legal battles, making the whole process even slower and costlier.

因为这将引发长期的法律斗争，使得整个进程更加缓慢、花费更巨。

Marketing bonds to thousands of individuals instead of a handful of institutions is costlier.

相对少数机构投资者而言，针对成千上万个人投资者债券销售是昂贵的。

In large parts of America, where population densities are lower, it would be much costlier.

而在美国，由于人口密度更低，投递费用还会更高。

Prices start at $499 and go to $829, with the costlier models having more memory and/or 3G.

价格最低499美元，最高829美元，价格越高，记忆卡容量越大，或者是加了3G，或者两种情况都有。

Shoppers can easily buy the supermarkets' cheaper own-label beer instead of costlier brands.

购物者更倾向于购买超市中便宜的自有品牌啤酒，而不是知名品牌。

Based on how fast the mice sipped, they appeared to find the costlier sugar water more tasty.

根据它们喝水的速度推断，看来老鼠们觉得代价更高的糖水味道更好。

So far, adding jobs in India has not meant shedding many jobs in costlier places, such as America.

不过，在印度增加人力，并不意味着在美国等用人成本高的地方大举裁员。

They tended to be paid according to seniority, rather than productivity, and were costlier to sack.

因为他们是根据资历而非效率来决定收入，而解雇他们往往代价更高。

Overall, food inflation remains uncomfortably high (see chart), in part because of costlier raw materials.

总的来说，食品通胀率依然处于令人不安的高位（见图），部分原因是因为原料价格上涨。

Furthermore, new human resource laws implemented in the beginning of 2008 make it costlier to fire workers.

此外，2008年新实施的《人力资源法》使得解雇工人的费用更加高昂。

We recommend erring on the side of caution, as exiting too early is costlier than exiting too late,” he said.

我们的建议是谨慎为上，因为过早退出比过迟退出的代价更大。

According to IBM's own data, caring for a diabetic child is six times costlier than caring for a healthy one.

据IBM公司内部数据显示，养育一个患糖尿病的孩子的开销是一个健康孩子的六倍。

The transition to a new equilibrium is proving costlier, more prolonged and much more painful than anyone had expected.

向新的平衡转换的过程比任何人能预期到的而且正在被证明是昂贵的，更长期的，更痛苦的。

Japan's subsequent experience was economically less violent in the short term, but even costlier over the long term.

日本的故事短期看来并没有那么剧烈，但是长期范围内损失甚至更加巨大。

It also can cost more because it demands beefier, and thus costlier, hardware to run well than does the older Windows XP.

另外，因为Vista需要比上一代Windows XP更强劲、也因此更昂贵的硬件来保持平稳运行，你还要花上更多的钱。

The abiding lesson of monetary history is that the higher inflation gets, the costlier it becomes to bring down again.

货币史历来的教训是通货膨胀率涨得越高则引导其回归正轨的代价就越为高昂。

The result of poor infrastructure is that many business services are much costlier than those available in other regions.

缺乏基础设施导致的结果是当地的许多商业服务的价格都高于其他地区的同类服务。

The report says that means greater demand for raw materials, including wheat, soy, palm oil and corn, which means costlier food.

报告说，这意味着对包括小麦、大豆、棕榈油和玉米在内的原材料的需求增加，同时也意味着粮食价格更加昂贵。

The state is a long way from covering its 130,000 uninsured citizens, while the subsidies are proving costlier than expected.

距离覆盖13万无保居民的目的，该州还是路漫漫其修远兮，然而所用补助已显示出超过预期。