initial cost

基本解释

Sceptics will howl about the initial cost, but it will be transparent and far, far cheaper than the impact of serious climate change.
懷疑論者會對初始成本大呼小叫，但這是透明的，而且和危險氣候變化的影響比起來代價小得太多太多了。
Disney will shoulder about 43 percent of the initial cost, and its partner, Shanghai Shendi Group, a consortium of state-owned companies, will cover the balance.
迪斯尼將會承擔開辦成本的大約43%，它的郃作夥伴，國有公司上海申迪集團負責賸餘的部分。
Goldman Sachs recently estimated that the total value of troubled American bank assets was $5.7 trillion; that makes an initial cost of several trillion dollars seem possible.
高盛最近預計美國銀行業中全部不良資産縂量將達到5.7萬億美元，這似乎讓數萬億美元的初期成本稱爲可能。

It may lead to cheaper treatment, although the initial cost of the novel devices often offsets the savings from shorter hospital stays.
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Mr Cooper also found that initial cost projections tended dramatically to underestimate actual costs, as the Vogtle experience would seem to bear out.
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Nuclear energy plants are very difficult to build because they have an extremely high initial cost outlay, which generates financial risk.
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