expense
expense 英 [ɪkˈspens] 美 [ɪkˈspɛns]
n. 费用；开销；花费；
名词复数:expenses
- An expense is a cost, but you can also use this word to mean the figurative cost of something. If you find it embarrassing to dress up as Santa, you might say that you do it to amuse your nephews, at the expense of your pride.
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- n. 费用；开销；花费；
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1. He's arranged everything, no expense spared.
他不惜代价把一切安排得井井有条。
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2. The results are well worth the expense.
有这些结果花的钱很值。
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3. Running a car is a big expense.
养一辆车开销很大。
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4. living/household/medical/legal, etc. expenses
生活费用；家庭开支；医疗、律师等费用
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5. financial help to meet the expenses of an emergency
供紧急情况下开支的经济援助
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6. The payments he gets barely cover his expenses.
他几乎是入不敷出。
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7. to take a client out for a meal on expenses
用业务费请客户外出就餐
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8. an all-expenses-paidtrip
费用全数报销的公差
- expense (n.) also formerly expence, late 14c., "action of spending or giving away, a laying out or expending," also "funds provided for expenses, expense money; damage or loss from any cause," from Anglo-French expense, Old French espense "money provided for expenses," from Late Latin expensa "disbursement, outlay, expense," noun use of neuter plural past participle of Latin expendere "weigh out money, pay down," from ex "out, out of" (see ex-) + pendere "to hang, cause to hang; weigh; pay" (from PIE root *(s)pen- "to draw, stretch, spin").
- expense (v.) 1909, from expense (n.). Related: Expensed; expensing.
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