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ex·pen·sive /ɪkˈspensɪv/ S1 W2 adjectiveadj

EXPENSIVEcosting a lot of money 昂贵的，花钱多的 OPP cheap

the most expensive restaurant in town

城里最贵的餐馆

Petrol is becoming more and more expensive.

汽油越来越贵了。

Photography is an expensive hobby.

摄影是一项很花钱的业余爱好。

expensive to buy/run/produce/maintain etc

The house was too big and expensive to run.

房子太大，养起来很费钱。

For low-income families, children’s safety equipment can be prohibitively expensive (=so expensive that most people cannot afford it).

对于低收入家庭来说，儿童的安全设备贵得让人望而却步。

Employing the wrong builder can be a horribly expensive mistake.

用错建筑工人有时会是代价高昂的错误。

Her husband had expensive tastes (=liked expensive things).

她丈夫喜欢的东西都很贵。

—expensively adverbadv

She’s always expensively dressed.

她总是穿得很华贵。

n COLLOCATIONS

adverbs

quite/fairly expensive

The food’s quite expensive, but it’s really nice.

rather/pretty expensive (=more expensive than you expect)

I think £1000 for a bed is rather expensive.

very/extremely expensive

We ate at a very expensive restaurant.

astronomically/phenomenally expensive (=used to emphasize how expensive something is)

Some new medical treatments are phenomenally expensive.

hugely expensive (=extremely expensive, especially when you think something is too expensive)

The building is hugely expensive to maintain.

ridiculously/outrageously/horrendously expensive (=extremely expensive, in a way that seems shocking)

Room service in the hotel was ridiculously expensive.

extortionately expensive (=extremely expensive, in a way that is not fair or reasonable)

Houses in some parts of London are extortionately expensive.

prohibitively expensive formal (=too expensive, with the result that most people cannot afford to buy something)

HIV medicines are still prohibitively expensive for sufferers in Africa.

verbs

look expensive

All of her clothes look very expensive.

prove expensive

Their decision could prove expensive.

nouns

expensive tastes (=a desire to have things that are very expensive)

His wife has very expensive tastes and his kids always want the latest things.

an expensive mistake (=a mistake which results in someone having to spend a lot of money)

Choosing the wrong builder turned out to be an expensive mistake.

THESAURUS

expensive costing a lot of money 昂贵的，花钱多的

an expensive car

昂贵的汽车

Apartments in the city are very expensive.

该城市的公寓房非常贵。

nAn underground train system is expensive to build.

high costing a lot of money. You use high about rents/fees/prices/costs. Don’t use expensive with these words 价格高的〔rents/fees/prices/costs要和high 连用，不能和expensive 连用〕

Rents are very high in this area.

这一地区房租很高。

Lawyers charge high fees.

律师收费很高。

the high cost of living in Japan

日本高昂的生活费用

dear [not before noun] British EnglishBrE spoken expensive compared to the usual price 〔比一般价格〕贵的

£3.50 seems rather dear for a cup of coffee.

一杯咖啡要3.5英镑，似乎相当贵。

pricey /ˈpraɪsi/ informal expensive 昂贵的，价钱高的

The clothes are beautiful but pricey.

这些衣服很美，不过太贵了。

costly expensive in a way that wastes money 昂贵的〔指浪费金钱〕

Upgrading the system would be very costly.

给系统升级太费钱了。

They were anxious to avoid a costly legal battle.

他们急于避免一场耗费巨大的诉讼战。

cost a fortune informal to be very expensive 花一大笔钱

The necklace must have cost a fortune!

这条项链肯定花了一大笔钱！

exorbitant /ɪɡˈzɔːbətənt $ -ɔːr-/ much too expensive 价格[金额]过高的

Some accountants charge exorbitant fees.

有些会计师收费过高。

astronomical astronomical prices, costs, and fees are extremely high 〔价格、费用〕天文数字的

the astronomical cost of developing a new spacecraft

开发新型航天器的巨额费用

nthe astronomical prices which some people had paid for their seats

nThe cost of living is astronomical.

overpriced too expensive and not worth the price 定价过高的

The DVDs were vastly overpriced.

这些数字影碟定价过高。

somebody can’t afford something someone does not have enough money to buy or do something 某人买[负担]不起某物

Most people can’t afford to send their children to private schools.

大多数人没钱送子女上私立学校。

Examples from the Corpus

expensive• College is more expensive and more critical to middle-class status than in the past.• Do you have any less expensive cameras?• And here you will be seated in an expensive chair.• She spends most of her money on expensive clothes.• Means testing was expensive, clumsy and time-wasting.• Smoking can be an expensive habit.• It will be both a richer world and a less expensive one.• And it's not one of their more expensive ones, either.• The house is on West Boston Avenue, Detroit's most expensive residential area.• an expensive restaurant• My uncle took us out to dinner at an expensive restaurant.• Comparisons reveal that further-processed fish products are more expensive than frozen raw fillets and steaks.• Taxis are so expensive - that's why I usually take the bus.• Movies are incredibly expensive to make these days.• Spartan carries important data from that experiment, which tested lighter and less expensive ways to put large structures in space.

expensive to buy/run/produce/maintain etc• And they're too expensive to buy.• Oh sure, a few survived but no one actually bought one because they were too damned expensive to run.• The disadvantage is cartridges are more expensive to produce.• The property contains some 550 historic structures that are expensive to maintain.• This kind of entertainment was computationally intensive, expensive to produce, and expensive to buy.• They are simply too expensive to run and maintain over such a long distance.• Also, a car's very expensive to buy and to run.

From Longman Business Dictionary

expensiveex·pen·sive /ɪkˈspensɪv/ adjectiveadj

1costing a lot of money

expensive computer equipment

Many manufacturers would find setting up their own High Street stores prohibitively expensive (=so expensive that they could not afford it).

2charging a lot of money

We were booked into one of Miami’s most expensive hotels.

ex·pen·sive adjectiveadj →n COLLOCATIONS1 →THESAURUS1

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IELTS BNC: 1577 COCA: 1664

expensive

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB

VERBS

➤be, look, prove, seem, sound昂貴；看上去價格高；證明昂貴；似乎花錢很多；聽起來昂貴

◇Her suit looked extremely expensive.她的套裝看上去極為昂貴。

➤become, get變得昂貴

◇Food in this country is getting very expensive.這個國家的食物變得很昂貴。

➤make sth使⋯昂貴

◇Adding these safety features would make the cars too expensive.增加這些安全性能會使轎車價格過高。

➤find sth覺得⋯昂貴

◇I found the food very expensive.我發現食物很貴。

ADVERB

➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其／相當／非常昂貴

▸➤amazingly, astronomically, enormously, exceedingly, extortionately, extremely, hideously, highly, horrendously, horribly, hugely, incredibly, insanely, ludicrously, massively, outrageously, prohibitively, ridiculously, ruinously, terribly貴得出奇；極其昂貴；貴得可怕；貴得令人難以置信；貴得荒謬

◇Some of these legal cases are enormously expensive.這些司法案件中有些花費是非常大的。

◇Giving every patient an annual flu shot would be prohibitively expensive.每年給每個病人注射抗流感針劑的花費是無法承受的。

➤moderately有點兒貴

▸➤a little, slightly, etc.有點兒／略有些貴

▸➤increasingly日益昂貴

▸➤comparatively, relatively比較／相對昂貴

➤notoriously出名地昂貴

▸➤obviously明顯昂貴

IELTS BNC: 1577 COCA: 1664

expensive

adjective

➡ See also the entry for

high

另见high条第1义

expensive

♦︎

costly

♦︎

overpriced

♦︎

priceyThese words all describe sth that costs a lot of money. 这些词均表示昂贵的。

PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配

◆expensive / costly / pricey for sb / sth

◆expensive / costly to do sth

◆very / too / fairly / quite / pretty expensive / costly / pricey

■ expensive

costing a lot of money; charging high prices 昂贵的；花钱多的；价格高的

◆Art books are enormously expensive to produce.美术书的制作成本非常高。

◆Making the wrong decision could prove to be expensive.错误的决策可能会付出昂贵的代价。

◆That dress was an expensive mistake.那件连衣裙买得很不值。

◆an expensive restaurant收费昂贵的餐厅

OPP

cheap

inexpensive ⇨

cheap

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