However, this passage will help you to think like an economist, closely considering the opportunity cost of each of your decisions.

然而，本文将帮助你像经济学家一样思考，仔细考虑你的每个决策的机会成本。

Accounting: Don't forget opportunity cost.

会计学：不要忘了机会成本。

To be sure, everything has an opportunity cost.

当然，每件事物都有机会成本。

To be sure, everything has an opportunity cost.

诚然，每件事情都有机会成本。

The alternative forgone is called the opportunity cost.

这种选择性的放弃就叫做机会成本。

I REMAIN concerned about the opportunity cost of Fed actions.

我依然密切关注着美联储行动的机会成本。

Is it more resilient, resulting in less opportunity cost lost?

复原能力是否更强，成本损失的机会是否更小？

Theconcept of opportunity cost can be summarized by a definition.

机会成本的概念可以用一句定义概括。

In a world of negative yields, owning gold has no opportunity cost.

在一个收益率为负的世界，持有黄金无需付出机会成本。

The opportunity cost is the value of the best foregone alternative.

机会成本就是为了得到一种价值而放弃的其他可以得到的最大价值。

Everyone else is paying a huge opportunity cost to protect those farmers.

其余的人都不遗余力不计成本地保护着这些农民们。

Like most entrepreneurs, we've sacrificed significant time and opportunity cost.

像大多数企业家一样，我们付出了大量的时间和机会成本。

None of them offer a decent yield, reducing the opportunity cost of holding gold.

他们都未曾提出一份主要的产能计划，为此增加黄金的储备量机会减少了。

At lunchtime the opportunity cost of letting you take up a table for four is substantial.

在午餐时间让你占用一个四人桌的机会成本非常可观。

First, it will increase the opportunity cost of the recipient's rejoining the labor force.

第一，它会增加受助者再就业的机会成本。

But perhaps more important, there's the opportunity cost of missing enhancements down the road.

但更重要的是，这样下去的代价是失去增强的机会。

Anyhow, this sentence told us that we need to consider opportunity cost when we make a choice.

这句话，告诉我们的是，在我们做选择的时候，我们是要考虑机会成本的。

This rate of return is often referred to asthe discount rate, hurdle rate, or opportunity cost of capital.

这个回报率通常指贴现因子、最低预期资本收益率或者资本的机会成本。

When interest rates eventually rise, the opportunity cost of holding gold will go up, taking off the shine.

当最终利率上升，持有黄金的机会成本将会上升，而黄金将失去其光芒。

My "opportunity cost" (I think now is a good time to start showing off some b-school lingo) was staggering.

我的“机会成本”(我想现在可以开始炫耀一些商学院的行话了)奇高无比。

Through an analysis of opportunity cost of the crime, evolve with the macroeconomics analysis of the crime.

通过对犯罪机会成本的分析，引申出犯罪的宏观经济学分析。

Opportunity cost expresses the idea that for every choice, the true economic cost is the next best opportunity.

机会成本表达了这样的理念：对于每一个“选择”，真是的经济成本是“下一个”最好的选择。

So this chapter’s first task is to defineand explain net present value, rate of return, and opportunity cost of capital.

因此本章的第一个任务就是定义和解释净现值、回报率和资本的机会成本。

Should the coffee shop offer wireless Internet access if it isn't willing to accept the opportunity cost associated with it?

如果这家咖啡店不愿意承担提供无线上网服务附带的机会成本，那么，它是否应该提供该项服务呢？

Some companies even identify an amount of the proposal budget to set aside, again to identify a minimum sales opportunity cost.

有些公司甚至会指明将提留一定数额的提案预算，并确定一个最低销售机会成本。

What’s more, as wages continue to rise, the opportunity cost for peasants to leave high school and enter the work force skyrockets.

而且，随着工资不断上涨，农民离开学校的机会成本高，进入劳动力队伍众多。

Worse yet, there is an opportunity cost for the other projects that might otherwise have been funded but are now lost opportunities.

更坏的情况是，其他项目的机会成本也会因此被丧失殆尽。

Even the major oil companies may be unwilling to put their capital to use if the opportunity cost is too great and the returns too low.

假如机会成本太高而回报又太低，即使是主要产油公司也不愿意投入其资本。