costless

基本解釋

So long as it is costless to taxpayers, sure, why not?
衹要沖減對(duì)納稅人是無(wú)成本的，儅然要沖減，爲(wèi)什麼不呢？
Future problems by definition are not felt in the present, and so it is difficult to mobilize public opinion in support of solutions unless they are costless.
現(xiàn)在顯然不會(huì)對(duì)未來(lái)的難題感同身受，因而除非一分錢都不用花，否則很難調(diào)動(dòng)民意來(lái)爲(wèi)（將來(lái)問題的）解決辦法提供支持。
There's a good lesson here for policy makers in Washington who think protectionism is costless.
其中教訓(xùn)，值得華盛頓那些認(rèn)爲(wèi)保護(hù)主義無(wú)須付出代價(jià)的決策者深思。

There was a time, back in the 1950s and 1960s, when Keynesian stimulus packages were seen as costless.
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Nevertheless, it would be wrong—and complacent—to suppose that failure would be costless.
ECONOMIST: World trade
There is a common fallacy, not least in Germany, that dropping the Greeks would be a fairly costless way to teach a useful lesson.
ECONOMIST: The euro