initial cost

基本解释

Sceptics will howl about the initial cost, but it will be transparent and far, far cheaper than the impact of serious climate change.
怀疑论者会对初始成本大呼小叫，但这是透明的，而且和危险气候变化的影响比起来代价小得太多太多了。
Disney will shoulder about 43 percent of the initial cost, and its partner, Shanghai Shendi Group, a consortium of state-owned companies, will cover the balance.
迪斯尼将会承担开办成本的大约43%，它的合作伙伴，国有公司上海申迪集团负责剩余的部分。
Goldman Sachs recently estimated that the total value of troubled American bank assets was $5.7 trillion; that makes an initial cost of several trillion dollars seem possible.
高盛最近预计美国银行业中全部不良资产总量将达到5.7万亿美元，这似乎让数万亿美元的初期成本称为可能。

It may lead to cheaper treatment, although the initial cost of the novel devices often offsets the savings from shorter hospital stays.
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Mr Cooper also found that initial cost projections tended dramatically to underestimate actual costs, as the Vogtle experience would seem to bear out.
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Nuclear energy plants are very difficult to build because they have an extremely high initial cost outlay, which generates financial risk.
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