sunk cost

基本解釋

The moment when you decide to keep silence is the beginning to calculate the sunk cost.
沉默的開(kāi)始，是計(jì)算沉沒(méi)成本的開(kāi)始。
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Your judgment has been clouded by the sunk-cost fallacy: you hoped to get a master's degree, great food and an Italian paramour.
沉沒(méi)成本謬論影響了你的判斷：你希望得到一個(gè)碩士學(xué)位、美食和一位意大利情人。
According to Zhang, one of the problems is that most members see gym membership fees as money spent, or "a sunk cost, especially if you pay at the beginning of the year."
根據(jù)張介紹，最主要的問(wèn)題是會(huì)員把健身會(huì)費(fèi)看成是已經(jīng)花出去的錢(qián)，或“沉沒(méi)成本，尤其是會(huì)費(fèi)在年初時(shí)已經(jīng)交了。”

And a licence fee to enter a market is most definitely a sunk cost.
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For the Jets, the 2013 off-season will be about whether they recognize the old economics idiom that sunk cost are sunk.
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It's a sunk cost, and I should stop worrying about it.
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沉沒(méi)成本
The basic theories of natural monopoly including Subadditivity Theory, Economics of Scope and Theory of Sustainability, etc, generalizes the technological features of natural monopoly such as network, economic sequence, enormous sunk cost and common service.
自然壟斷的基本理論,包括成本弱增理論、範(fàn)圍經(jīng)濟(jì)、可維持理論等,歸納自然壟斷的技術(shù)特性,即網(wǎng)絡(luò)性、關(guān)聯(lián)經(jīng)濟(jì)性、大量的沉沒(méi)成本和普遍服務(wù)性。
旁置成本