at cost

基本解释

Some institutions argue that accounting rules permit them to hold derivatives at cost.
一些机构辩称，会计规则允许它们以成本持有衍生品。
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There is an even broader problem. When it comes to measuring national income, we’re generally valuing expenditures at cost, rather than tracking productivity in terms of results.
还有更深远影响的问题：当衡量国家收入的时候，我们一般只在成本上确定开支的数值，而并不跟踪最终生产率的转换。
Banks’ financial statements could be modified to show assets at cost as well as fair value, so that if regulators or investors wanted to use traditional accounting to form a view, they could.
银行的财务报表可以适当调整以便显示按成本以及按市值估算的资产，因此如果监管者或投资人愿意使用传统的会计方法来形成观点，他们就应当可以。

But doctors at the University of Michigan think they know a way to lower that cost.
As a result of the Freedom Rides, they had integrated interstate transportation, at great cost to the volunteers who rode those buses.
作为自由乘车运动的结果，州际间的交通被大大集中，不过这使那些乘坐巴士的志愿者们付出了极大的代价。
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So I'll be producing this stuff, this water at cost c and only getting p, which is not only less than c in return.
这就导致成本是c的瓶装水只能卖到p,这个价格都不能捞回本钱呢
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Novartis sold 62 million courses of its malaria drug, Coartem, at cost to poor African countries.
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