| 单词 | expensively |
| 释义 | expensiveexpensive /ɪkˈspɛnsɪv/ ●●● S1 W2 adjective costing a lot of money: Apartments in the city are very expensive. He took me to an expensive restaurant.expensive to maintain/keep/run etc. The large old house had become too expensive for her to maintain.—expensively adverbTHESAURUShigh – prices or costs that are high are more expensive than usual: Gas prices are very high right now.pricey informal – expensive compared to other things of the same kind: The hotel was nice, but it was a little bit pricey.costly – very expensive and often wasting money: They wanted to avoid a costly legal battle.overpriced – too expensive and not worth the price: I’m not going into a tourist shop to buy an overpriced T-shirt.exorbitant – exorbitant prices, costs, etc. are much too expensive: Housing prices in New York are exorbitant.astronomical – astronomical prices, costs, etc. are so expensive that they are very hard to believe or imagine: The painting was sold for an astronomical price.exclusive – exclusive restaurants, hotels, etc. have very high prices so that only very rich people can go to them: She spends two weeks every year at an exclusive spa in the Rockies.fancy – fancy restaurants, cars, clothes, etc. are expensive and fashionable: They stayed at a fancy hotel in San Francisco. |
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