opportunity cost

常见例句

Perhaps it was in Econ 101 that he learned the term 'opportunity cost, ' because his time at Stanford was not long.
伍兹或许是在学习“经济101”时认识了“机会成本”这一术语，因为他在斯坦福呆的时间并不长。
The opportunity cost of spending $17 on a CD is what you would havedone with the $17 instead, and perhaps the value of the time spentshopping.
花17美元买一张CD的机会成本，就是你用这17美元所能做的其他事情，或许还有你购物所花费的时间价值。
If your next-best alternative to seeing the movie is reading the book, then the opportunity cost of seeing the movie is the money spent plus the pleasure you forgo by not reading the book.
如果对于看电影而言，你的次优选择就是读那本书的话，那看电影的机会成本就是你看电影花的钱，再加上你因为不能读那本书而放弃的那份愉悦。

Now they are paying for it. "They certainly lost an opportunity that we had in January where it would have cost roughly sixty billion euros to save Greece."
"We believe that,long term, Mexico is going to be a wonderful opportunity for retirees to live,the cost of medical services and health-related issues, but also the overall cost of living in Mexico is far lower."

And the opportunity cost for not taking risk is itself a form of taking a risk.
FORBES: We Never Fail
Low interest rates reduce the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding assets such as gold.
ECONOMIST: How asset prices react to quantitative easing
What makes opportunity cost more insidious is its impact may not be obvious for some time.
FORBES: The Risk of Ignoring Opportunity Cost