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expensive adj.昂贵的；高价的 (1) 那衣服太昂贵，我买不起。(2) 廉价照相机的质量并总不比昂贵的差。(3) 这套水晶玻璃酒杯非常昂贵。(4) 日常开支太高了。(5) 坐飞机去比坐船去的费用更高一些。 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.

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英 [ɪk'spensɪv] 美 [ɪk'spensɪv] (1) The dress is too expensive for me to buy.(2) A cheaper camera is not always inferior to a more expensive one.(3) This set of crystal wine cups is very expensive.(4) The overhead costs are ridiculously expensive.(5) It is more expensive to go by plane than by boat. 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. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]昂贵的；高价的 If something is expensive, it costs a lot of money. Wine's so expensive in this country...葡萄酒在这个国家非常昂贵。I get very nervous because I'm using a lot of expensive equipment.因为正在使用很多昂贵的设备，所以我非常紧张。expensivelyShe was expensively dressed, with fine furs and jewels...她穿戴着名贵的毛皮大衣和珠宝，非常奢华。They do a third-rate job very expensively.他们收很多钱交出了三流的活儿。

英语单词	expensive
英美音标	英 [ɪk'spensɪv] 美 [ɪk'spensɪv]
中文释义	adj.昂贵的；高价的
英语例句	(1) The dress is too expensive for me to buy. (2) A cheaper camera is not always inferior to a more expensive one. (3) This set of crystal wine cups is very expensive. (4) The overhead costs are ridiculously expensive. (5) It is more expensive to go by plane than by boat.
中文例句	(1) 那衣服太昂贵，我买不起。 (2) 廉价照相机的质量并总不比昂贵的差。 (3) 这套水晶玻璃酒杯非常昂贵。 (4) 日常开支太高了。 (5) 坐飞机去比坐船去的费用更高一些。
vocabulary简明	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.
vocabulary扩展	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.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]昂贵的；高价的 If something is expensive, it costs a lot of money. Wine's so expensive in this country... 葡萄酒在这个国家非常昂贵。 I get very nervous because I'm using a lot of expensive equipment. 因为正在使用很多昂贵的设备，所以我非常紧张。 expensively She was expensively dressed, with fine furs and jewels... 她穿戴着名贵的毛皮大衣和珠宝，非常奢华。 They do a third-rate job very expensively. 他们收很多钱交出了三流的活儿。

Expensive Lot Buy Costs Means Things 英 ɪk'spensɪv] 美