exorbitant
exorbitant 英 [ɪgˈzɔ:bɪtənt] 美 [ɪgˈzɔrbɪtənt]
adj. （要价等）过高的；（性格等）过分的；不在法律范围之内的
- Use the adjective exorbitant when you want to describe something that is really just too much! You'll often hear people griping about exorbitant bank fees or exorbitant interest rates.
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- adj. （要价等）过高的；（性格等）过分的；不在法律范围之内的
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1. In the first few months of the siege, food could be purchased, albeit at exorbitant prices.
在包围刚开始的几个月里，虽然价格过高，食物还是买得到的。
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2. His peasant followers are on the wrong side of the law because exorbitant taxes prevent them from making an honest living: "Taxes, we do not like, " declares Little John.
追随他的农夫们站在法律的另一边，是因为过分的税收让他们无法过上诚实的生活。 “征税，我们不喜欢。”
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3. And their parents would rather not have to pay those exorbitant fees.
他们的父母就不要支付那些高昂的费用了。
- exorbitant (adj.) mid-15c., a legal term, "deviating from rule or principle, eccentric;" from Late Latin exorbitantem (nominative exorbitans), present participle of exorbitare "deviate, go out of the track," from ex "out of" (see ex-) + orbita "wheel track" (see orb). General sense of "excessive, immoderate" is from 1620s; of prices, rates, etc., from 1660s. Related: Exorbitantly.
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