expensive
expensive 英 [ɪkˈspensɪv] 美 [ɪkˈspɛnsɪv]
adj. 昂贵的；花钱的
expensive medicine 昂贵的药品
an expensive car, an expensive restaurant, an expensive holiday 昂贵的汽车；高档的餐馆；花费大的假日
- The adjective expensive means high in price, like the expensive basketball sneakers you had to work all summer to save up enough money to buy.
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- adj. 昂贵的；花钱的
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1. expensive medicine
昂贵的药品
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2. an expensive car, an expensive restaurant, an expensive holiday
昂贵的汽车；高档的餐馆；花费大的假日
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3. Art books are expensive to produce.
美术书籍制作成本高。
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4. I can't afford it, it's too expensive.
我买不起，太贵了。
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5. That dress was an expensive mistake.
那件连衣裙看走眼买贵了。
- expensive (adj.) 1620s, "given to profuse expenditure," from expense (n.) + -ive. Meaning "costly, requiring profuse expenditure" is from 1630s. Earlier was expenseful (c. 1600). Expenseless was in use mid-17c.-18c., but there seems now nothing notable to which it applies, and the dictionaries label it "obsolete." Related: Expensively; expensiveness.
ex·pen·sive ★ / ɪkˈspensɪv ; NAmE ɪkˈspensɪv / adjective costing a lot of money 昂贵的；花钱多的；价格高的 ◆ an expensive car/restaurant/holiday 昂贵的汽车；高档的餐馆；花费大的假日 ◆ Art books are expensive to produce. 美术书籍制作成本高。 ◆ I can't afford it, it's too expensive. 我买不起，太贵了。 ◆ Making the wrong decision could prove expensive. 错误的决策可能会付出昂贵的代价。 ◆ That dress was an expensive mistake. 那件连衣裙看走眼买贵了。 OPP inexpensive ▶ ex·pen·sive·ly / ɪkˈspensɪvli ; NAmE ɪkˈspensɪvli / adverb ◆ expensively dressed/furnished 穿着╱陈设华贵 ◆ There are other restaurants where you can eat less expensively. 还有其他一些餐馆价钱稍微便宜些。 SYNONYMS 同义词辨析 expensive costly ◆overpriced ◆pricey These words all describe sth that costs a lot of money. 以上各词均用于花钱多的事物。 ■ expensive costing a lot of money; charging high prices 指昂贵的、花钱多的、价格高的： ◆ I can't afford it—it's just too expensive for me. 我买不起，对我来说这太贵了。 ◆ an expensive restaurant 高档餐馆 ■ costly ( rather formal) costing a lot of money, especially more than you want to pay 指昂贵的、花钱多的、价钱比愿意付的为高： ◆ You want to avoid costly legal proceedings if you can. 如果能够的话你希望避免昂贵的法律诉讼。 ■ overpriced too expensive; costing more than it is worth 指价格太高的、过于昂贵的： ◆ ridiculously overpriced designer clothes 贵得离谱的名牌衣服 ■ pricey ( informal) expensive 指昂贵的、价格高的： ◆ Houses in the village are now too pricey for local people to afford. 如今该村庄的房价太高，当地人根本买不起。 ■ dear [not usually before noun] ( BrE) expensive 指昂贵、价格高： ◆ Everything's so dear now, isn't it? 现在什么东西都那么贵，是不是？ NOTEThis word is starting to become rather old-fashioned. 这词已开始有些过时了。 PATTERNS ◆ expensive/costly/overpriced/pricey forsb/sth ◆ expensive/costly to do sth ◆ very / very expensive/costly/pricey ex·pen·sive / ɪkˈspensɪv ; NAmE ɪkˈspensɪv / ex·pen·sive·ly / ɪkˈspensɪvli ; NAmE ɪkˈspensɪvli /
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