| 单词 | expensive |
| 释义 | expensive (once / 267 pages) adj 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. Expensive comes from the 1620s, when it meant "given to profuse expenditure." Back then, it was the people doing the buying who got called "expensive." Now it's the costly things they buy or take part in. For example, sailing is an expensive hobby. If someone tells you, "I have expensive taste," it means that person likes things that cost a lot of money, whether they are purchased or just admired from the shop window. WORD FAMILYexpensive: expensively, expensiveness, inexpensive+/expend: expendable, expended, expender, expending, expenditure, expends, expensive/expendable: unexpendable/expended: unexpended/expenditure: expenditures/inexpensive: inexpensively, inexpensiveness USAGE EXAMPLESIn some of the country’s more expensive markets, the slowdown at the top end is showing signs of trickling down to more average-priced apartments. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Some poor families spend large sums on expensive creams to fight the disease. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) He cited the plummeting cost of initially expensive technologies like solar power. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) adj high in price or charging high prices expensive clothes an expensive shop Syn|Ant big-ticket, high-ticket very expensive costly, dear, high-priced, pricey, pricyhaving a high price costly, dearly-wonentailing great loss or sacrifice overpricedtoo costly for the value valuablehaving great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange cheap, inexpensive relatively low in price or charging low prices bargain-priced, cut-price, cut-ratecosting less than standard price catchpennydesigned to sell quickly without concern for quality dirt cheapvery cheap low-budgetmade on or suited to a limited budget affordable, low-cost, low-pricedthat you have the financial means for nickel-and-dimelow-paying sixpenny, threepenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpennyof trifling worth |
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