opportunity cost

常見例句

Perhaps it was in Econ 101 that he learned the term 'opportunity cost, ' because his time at Stanford was not long.
伍茲或許是在學(xué)習(xí)“經(jīng)濟(jì)101”時認(rèn)識了“機(jī)會成本”這一術(shù)語，因?yàn)樗谒固垢４舻臅r間并不長。
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美元買一張CD的機(jī)會成本，就是你用這17美元所能做的其他事情，或許還有你購物所花費(fèi)的時間價值。
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.
如果對于看電影而言，你的次優(yōu)選擇就是讀那本書的話，那看電影的機(jī)會成本就是你看電影花的錢，再加上你因?yàn)椴荒茏x那本書而放棄的那份愉悅。

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