Demand for topquality programmers exceeds supply, leading to extortionate salaries.

对优秀程序员的需求远远供给，致使工资畸高。

The price exacted by the hijackers for redeeming the hostages was extortionate.

劫持者为交换人质而索要的代太分。

Although PM has solved the problem of carbide segregation and crassitude fundamentally, it has complicated technics and extortionate cost, so restricts its application.

粉末冶金虽然从根本上解决碳化物偏大的问题，但其工艺复杂，成本高，应用受到限制。