The $60,000 benefit to American households, as in all cost-of-life calculations, is not real cash but an accounting measure that helps compare very different things such as lives, jobs and contending moral and social values in a complex society.

如同在所有的生活成本计中一样，每个美国家美元的价不是真实的现金，而是一种会计指标，它能帮人们在一个复杂社会中，比较非常不同的事物，如生命、工作，以及相互矛盾的道德价观和社会价观等。

It's likely that if the ongoing costs of Chernobyl were properly calculated up to today, it would probably steal that number1 spot.

如果把切尔诺贝利核电站的持续成本计到今天，它很可能会抢去第一的位置。

She studied nutritional science in college, and she learned this costing method in her classes.

她在大学学习了营养科学，并在课堂上学到了这种成本计法。

And once we have the costing, then we can go to government, everyone's favorite.

一旦我们有了成本计，那么我们就可以去政府，每个人都喜欢。

Some Gen Zers protest, claiming that higher incomes are a mirage because they do not account for the exploding cost of college and housing.

一些Z世代人士提出抗议，声称高收入只是海市蜃楼，因为他们未将不断飙升的大学学费和住房成本计在内。

Sometimes the known reserves of a natural resource seem especially small because the amount available at currently feasible costs is in fact nearing exhaustion within a few years.

有时，某种自然资源的已知储量似乎特别小，因为以目前可行的成本计，其可用量实际上在几年内就接近耗尽。