If for a generation or so machinery has had to wait its turn in the mine, it is simply because for a time men were cheaper than machinery. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
He infers from this, that their dress must, upon the whole, have been cheaper than ours; but the conclusion does not seem to follow. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Grocery goods, for example, are generally much cheaper; bread and butchers' meat frequently as cheap. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
By this plan the original plate remains untouched, and the printing from the stone is much cheaper than from the copper. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
It was found cheaper and superior to either coal or charcoal, and produced a quicker fire and a greater heat. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
It shows that as inventions multiply, so does the demand for their better and cheaper products increase. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
Another and cheaper product experimented with is the pith of the cornstalk, which is much lighter than the cocoanut fiber and serves the same purpose. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
It was his opinion that it was cheaper to quarry and concentrate lean ore in a big way than to attempt to mine, under adverse circumstances, limited bodies of high-grade ore. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
But the public would be a gainer, the work of all artificers coming in this way much cheaper to market. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Practically all silver, gold, and nickel plating is done in this way; machine, bicycle, and motor attachments are not solid, but are of cheaper material electrically plated with nickel. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
The chalk telephone was finally discarded in favor of the Bell receiver--the latter being more simple and cheaper. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
When one nigger's dead, I buy another; and I find it comes cheaper and easier, every way. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
But man's propensity for wearing clothes has led to the invention of every variety of tools for making them faster, cheaper, and better. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
It is only cotton, I alleged, hurriedly; and cheaper, and washes better than any other colour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
I have been turning Selina Goby over in my mind, I said, and I think, my lady, it will be cheaper to marry her than to keep her. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
Large quantities of the cheaper class of watches are now made by machinery in the United States, Switzerland, France, Germany and England. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Stockings, in many parts of Scotland, are knit much cheaper than they can anywhere be wrought upon the loom. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
A service of plate becomes really cheaper, and every thing else remains precisely of the same real value as before. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Well, I shan't take either of my horses, but shall ride the General's grey charger: it's cheaper, and I told him mine was lame. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
In the dry-salt curing cellars are kept enormous stocks of the cheaper kinds of meat. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
For many such purposes gangs of captives were cheaper and far more controllable than levies of the king's own people. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Those metals ought naturally, therefore, to be somewhat cheaper in Spain and Portugal than in any other part of Europe. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
The importer explained that in China human labor was cheaper than steam power. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Wood is not only lighter, but easily procured and worked, and cheaper, in many small and private ship-yards where an iron frame and parts would be difficult and expensive to produce. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
He said if Brooke wanted a pelting, he could get it cheaper than by going to the hustings. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
They tend directly, it may be supposed, to render the goods cheaper in the home market than they otherwise would be. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Use up, and buy more, 's my way;-makes you less trouble, and I'm quite sure it comes cheaper in the end; and Simon sipped his glass. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
But, it seems, we farmers must take so much less that the poor may have it so much cheaper. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
All sort of garden stuff, too, has become cheaper. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
It answers as well as oil paint for brick or stone, and is much cheaper. 威廉K.戴维.智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.