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Cheap Adj Describe Cost Money Situation Life Goods

单词 cheap
音标
英[tʃi:p] 美[tʃip]
解释
adj.便宜的,廉价的;劣质的,低劣的;小气的,可鄙的;adv.便宜地;卑鄙地;
例句

ADJ-GRADED
便宜的;不贵的
Goods or services that are cheap cost less money than usual or than you expected.
例:I'm going to live off campus if I can find somewhere cheap enough...要是能找到足够便宜的地方,我就不在校园里住了。
例:Smoke detectors are cheap and easy to put up...烟雾报警器既不贵又易于安装。

ADJ
不值钱的;质次价低的
If you describe goods as cheap, you mean they cost less money than similar products but their quality is poor.
例:Don't resort to cheap copies; save up for the real thing.别买廉价的仿冒品,攒点钱买正品吧。
例:...a tight suit made of some cheap material.用廉价面料做的紧身套装

ADJ
(劳动力)廉价的
If you describe the cost of someone's work as cheap, you disapprove of the way people are taking advantage of a situation to pay someone less than they should for the work that they do.
例:...unscrupulous employers who treat children as a cheap source of labour.把儿童当廉价劳动力使用的黑心雇主

ADJ
(言行)讨便宜的,刻薄的,不怀好意的
If you describe someone's remarks or actions as cheap, you mean that they are unkindly or insincerely using a situation to benefit themselves or to harm someone else.
例:These tests will inevitably be used by politicians to make cheap political points.这些测试必然会被政客们不失时机地拿去大做政治文章。

ADJ
吝啬的;小气的
If you describe someone as cheap, you are criticizing them for being unwilling to spend money.
例:Oh, please, Dad, just this once don't be cheap.哦,求求你,爸爸,就这一回,别抠门儿了。

PHRASE
人命不值钱;人命如草芥
You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
例:We will end up living in a society where life is cheap.我们最终将生活在一个视人命为儿戏的社会。

PHRASE
便宜第一;节省地
If someone does or buys something on the cheap, they spend less money than they should because they are more concerned with what it costs than with its quality.
例:Most modern housing estates are terrible and inevitably done on the cheap.现在的房子大多质量差劲透顶,肯定都是偷工减料盖起来的。
变形
noun:cheapness~est:cheapest~er:cheaper~

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