cost of living

cost of living什么意思,cost of living翻译

基本解释

n.: 生活费用
网络: 生活成本；生活的代价；生活开销

权威解释

• 生活费用:

  the amount of money that people need to pay for food, clothing and somewhere to live

英汉解释

• 生活费用

例句

• "Everybody used to say the cost of living in Sydney and Melbourne was much higher, but that"s certainly not the case now, " he said.

  他说，过去人人都说悉尼和墨尔本的生活成本比珀斯高得多，但现在情况肯定不是这样了。

• "The cost of living is too high now and you cannot live on $194 a week even with the maximum accommodation supplement, " she said.

  生活成本太高了，你不可能靠每周194新元来过活，哪怕得到最高的住房补贴。

• Every moon , he may eventually send me to cost of living , had not had one sentence complaint all along.

  每个月，他总会给我寄生活费，从来没有过一句怨言。

• Your cost of living tends to go up with your income.

  你的生活成本会随着你收入的增加而上升。

• The Bank of Korea, the central bank, may miss its inflation target as higher import prices drive up the cost of living.

  随着进口价格升高，生活成本被抬高，韩国央行韩国银行也许难以达成通胀指标。

• Governments are keen not to let the cost of living rise out of control.

  各国政府不想让生活成本失控。

• In many of the smaller cities, where the cost of living is considerably lower, US-style fast food is often considered a luxury.

  在许多小城市，那里的生活费用是相当低的，美国式的快餐店，往往被认为是一种奢侈。

• Such comparisons can be tricky, as the areas are not always similar in terms of size and cost of living.

  由于各区域在规模和生活成本上并不总是很相似，这样的比较可能会很复杂。

• In exchange, workers would forgo cost-of-living increases that, until recently, had long been a way of life for Detroit"s auto workers.

  作为交换，工人要放弃增加生活费的要求。就在不久前，要求增加生活费一直是底特律汽车工人的一种生存方式。

• In Egypt, the bread crisis is a symptom of a larger problem - one of stagnant wages that have failed to keep up with the cost of living.

  在埃及，面包危机只是一个深层问题的表象而已。埃及停滞的工资水平没有跟上生活开支的增速。