单词cost-of-living
na.: 生活费(用)
网络: 生活费的；生活费用；成本生活
生活费用:
the amount of money that people need to pay for food, clothing and somewhere to live
生活费的
"Everybody used to say the cost of living in Sydney and Melbourne was much higher, but that"s certainly not the case now, " he said.
他说，过去人人都说悉尼和墨尔本的生活成本比珀斯高得多，但现在情况肯定不是这样了。
"The cost of living is too high now and you cannot live on $194 a week even with the maximum accommodation supplement, " she said.
生活成本太高了，你不可能靠每周194新元来过活，哪怕得到最高的住房补贴。
Every moon , he may eventually send me to cost of living , had not had one sentence complaint all along.
每个月，他总会给我寄生活费，从来没有过一句怨言。
Your cost of living tends to go up with your income.
你的生活成本会随着你收入的增加而上升。
The Bank of Korea, the central bank, may miss its inflation target as higher import prices drive up the cost of living.
随着进口价格升高，生活成本被抬高，韩国央行韩国银行也许难以达成通胀指标。
Governments are keen not to let the cost of living rise out of control.
各国政府不想让生活成本失控。
In many of the smaller cities, where the cost of living is considerably lower, US-style fast food is often considered a luxury.
在许多小城市，那里的生活费用是相当低的，美国式的快餐店，往往被认为是一种奢侈。
Such comparisons can be tricky, as the areas are not always similar in terms of size and cost of living.
由于各区域在规模和生活成本上并不总是很相似，这样的比较可能会很复杂。
In exchange, workers would forgo cost-of-living increases that, until recently, had long been a way of life for Detroit"s auto workers.
作为交换，工人要放弃增加生活费的要求。就在不久前，要求增加生活费一直是底特律汽车工人的一种生存方式。
In Egypt, the bread crisis is a symptom of a larger problem - one of stagnant wages that have failed to keep up with the cost of living.
在埃及，面包危机只是一个深层问题的表象而已。埃及停滞的工资水平没有跟上生活开支的增速。