expensive
英 [ɪkˈspensɪv] 美 [ɪkˈspɛnsɪv]

adj.

昂贵的，花钱多的；豪华的；

双语释义

adj.(形容词)

1. 昂贵的,费用大的 costing a lot (of money)

英英释义

expensive[ ik'spensiv ]

• adj.high in price or charging high prices

  "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)～+名词

• expensive book昂贵的书
• expensive car昂贵的小汽车
• expensive clothes昂贵的衣服
• expensive education费用高的教育
• expensive gift昂贵的礼物
• expensive lady衣着华丽的妇女
• expensive mode of living奢华的生活方式
• expensive party耗资巨大的晚会
• expensive project耗资巨大的工程
• expensive watch昂贵的手表

副词+～

• abominably expensive奢侈得可恶
• absurdly expensive价钱高得不合理,奢侈得愚蠢
• amazingly expensive昂贵得惊人
• criminally expensive奢侈得可耻
• cruelly expensive极昂贵
• dreadfully expensive极端昂贵
• enormously expensive奢侈得极可恶
• excessively expensive极度奢侈
• exorbitantly expensive昂贵得过头
• extravagantly expensive过度奢侈
• extremely expensive极其昂贵
• foolishly expensive奢侈得愚蠢
• inconceivably expensive昂贵得惊人
• inevitably expensive必然昂贵
• inexpressibly expensive奢侈得无法形容
• naturally expensive自然昂贵
• outrageously expensive奢侈得令人不能容忍

～+动词不定式

• expensive to buy买不起
• expensive to travel by plane乘飞机旅行太贵

～+介词

• expensive for sb对于某人来说太贵
• expensive in diet花在饮食上的费用大

词组短语

less expensive adj. 比较便宜的

expensive thing昂贵的东西

a bit expensive有点贵

同近义词辨析

expensive, dear, costly

这组词都有“高的，昂贵的”的意思，其区别是：

expensive指物品的价格超过了它本身所值，或超过了购买者的支付能力。

dear侧重指要价过高，或远高于公道、合理的价格，其反义词是cheap。

costly指物品价格高，通常是因物品稀少或珍贵所致。

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. The dress is too expensive for me to buy.
   那衣服太昂贵，我买不起。
2. A cheaper camera is not always inferior to a more expensive one.
   廉价照相机的质量并总不比昂贵的差。
3. This set of crystal wine cups is very expensive.
   这套水晶玻璃酒杯非常昂贵。
4. The overhead costs are ridiculously expensive.
   日常开支太高了。
5. It is more expensive to go by plane than by boat.
   坐飞机去比坐船去的费用更高一些。

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