expensive
adjective /ɪkˈspensɪv/
/ɪkˈspensɪv/
- 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 - 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。 - expensive to do Art books are expensive to produce.
美术书籍制作成本高。 - expensive for somebody The new regulations are likely to be very expensive for employers.
新规定对雇主来说可能非常昂贵。 - expensive for somebody to do Bonds can be expensive for individuals to invest in.
个人投资债券可能会很贵。 - it is expensive to do something It's expensive to live in London.
住在伦敦很贵。 - it is expensive for somebody to do something It is now more expensive for Europeans to visit here.
现在欧洲人来这里旅游更贵了。
Synonyms expensiveexpensiveopposite cheap (1), inexpensive- costly
- overpriced
- pricey
- dear
- expensive costing a lot of money; charging high prices:
- 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
- I can’t afford it—it’s just too expensive for me.
- 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。
- You want to avoid costly legal proceedings if you can.
- overpriced too expensive; costing more than it is worth:
- ridiculously overpriced designer clothes
贵得离谱的名牌衣服
- ridiculously overpriced designer clothes
- pricey (informal) expensive:
指昂贵的、价格高的： - Houses in the village are now too pricey for local people to afford.
如今该村镇的房价太高，当地人根本买不起。
- Houses in the village are now too pricey for local people to afford.
- dear [not usually before noun] (British English) expensive:
指昂贵的、价格高的： - Everything’s so dear now, isn’t it?
现在什么东西都那么贵，是不是？
- Everything’s so dear now, isn’t it?
- expensive/costly/overpriced/pricey for somebody/something
- expensive/costly to do something
- very/too/fairly/quite/pretty expensive/costly/pricey
Topics Shoppinga1, Moneya1- Food in this country is getting very expensive.
这个国家的食物变得很昂贵。 - Giving every patient an annual anti-flu injection would be prohibitively expensive.
每年给每个病人注射抗流感针剂的花费是无法承受的。 - Her suit looked extremely expensive.
她的套装看上去极为昂贵。 - I found the food very expensive.
我发现食物很贵。 - Some of these legal cases are enormously expensive.
这些司法案件中有些花费是非常大的。 - discreetly expensive perfume
昂贵而不甚显眼的香水
Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- look
- prove
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
词源early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘lavish, extravagant’): from Latin expens- ‘paid out’, from the verb expendere, from ex- ‘out’ + pendere ‘weigh, pay’ + -ive. - an expensive car/restaurant/holiday