May 21, 2009 12:31
14 yrs ago
English term

cost

English to Chinese Science Science (general) microbiology
I am investigating cost of using translators and if there is a comprable organization for interpreters.
Proposed translations (Chinese)
5 +4 成本;費用
4 +2 花销

Proposed translations

+4
4 hrs
Selected

成本;費用

"Cost" can be translated into different phrases in Chinese, depending on what you are applying to. 成本 is more toward 營業支出, ; 費用 and 成本are both appropriate in your sentence translation.
Peer comment(s):

agree Sze Man Leung, MCIL, DipTrans (IoLET)
30 mins
agree chica nueva : 所需费用;得花多少钱 cost = the amount of money paid or needed to buy, do or produce something 费用;成本 eg ... the cost of bringing up a child ... 养大一个孩子得花多少钱 ... to cover the cost of books and stationery. ... 作为支付书籍和文具用品的费用。Our production costs ... 我们的生产成本(朗文进阶词典 )
7 hrs
agree Sherwin Zhou
8 hrs
agree Bin Tiede (X)
14 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
+2
1 hr

花销

It means how much will you pay for using tranlators to do the work.
Peer comment(s):

agree Bin Tiede (X) : 花销,费用
1 hr
agree chica nueva : 所需费用; 雇佣科技教士两个月所需费用 (Google);the cost of using translators = 雇佣翻译要花多少钱
10 hrs
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