at the expense of

常见例句

If and when some people get ahead at the expense of others, they will eventually pay.
如果当一些人以其他人为代价获得成功，他们最终会得到报应的。
This turnaround seems to have come at the expense of those who describe themselves as being without religion.
这一转变的发生看似是以那些将自己描述为无信仰者（比例的下降）为代价的；
However, this comes at the expense of releasing all your personal information to parents should they (or their child) ever want to contact you.
然而，这样做的代价就是把你的信息全都留给那些父母，他们（或他们的孩子）以后可能想要联系你.

Some people say lobbying supports special interests at the expense of the public interest.
Peter the Great expands territory beyond the Euro mountains along the Caspian Sea at the expense of the Turks.
彼得大帝越过欧洲山脉,沿着里海扩张,吞并着土耳其的土地
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To write any kind of epic at all might very well seem to be embracing an inappropriately sensual paganism at the expense of the higher discipline of good, old-fashioned monotheistic Christianity.
不论你想写好任何形式的史诗,你都要接受一些不太恰当的异教信仰,违反一些基督教中好的教条，和过时的一神论思想。
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In those periods it was deliberately investing in the future at the expense of current profits.
FORBES: Analytic myopia
They can still be counted upon to further their own interests at the expense of investors.
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Otherwise, effectiveness may be achieved at the expense of popular legitimacy and, ultimately, provoke a backlash.
ECONOMIST: European Union