🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典 🎯
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典

檢索以下詞典：
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯！)
最近搜尋：
IELTS BNC: 4943 COCA: 4286

costly

Word family 
cost·ly /ˈkɒstli $ ˈkɒːstli/ ●●○ adjectiveadj  
1  EXPENSIVEvery expensive, especially wasting a lot of money 昂贵的；〔尤指〕花太多钱的
n a complex and costly procedure
 Such a database would be extremely costly to set up.
建立这样一个数据库要花很多钱。
► see thesaurus at expensive
2  PROBLEMsomething that is costly causes a lot of problems or trouble 代价高的；损失大的
 His delay in making a decision could prove costly in the long run.
他的优柔寡断长久下去要付出巨大代价。
—costliness noun [uncountableU]
Examples from the Corpus
costly• The finance committee rejected their plan because they said it was too costly.• Maximum use of state-of-the-art technology in place of costly and often error-prone personnel.• A lawsuit would be costly and we would probably lose.• Caring for the park's swans is a costly business - roughly $26,600 per year.• Convening production lines to largely automated production of flat panel sets would be costly in the short term.• Several of the gifts were costly, including a cup of gold and a crystal salt-set.• Taylor's pinched nerve has been the team's most costly injury this season.• Buying all those computers was a costly mistake.• From a cash-flow standpoint, that is less costly than actually paying your corporation an additional $ 200 in interest.• Yet the effort, far more costly than anything ever attempted by any government, has not produced the expected returns.• Purchase of market share is seen to be less costly than establishing brands - and is quicker too.• Punitive damages potentially could be much more costly to cigarette companies than compensatory damages.• Producers must receive a higher price to produce these more costly units. 7 Price and quantity supplied are directly related.
prove costly• Dimas Teixeira's decision to stand off Beckham quickly proved costly.• Failure to protect yourself adequately could prove costly.• Still, there was, at times, an element of complacency in de Gaulle's approach, which proved costly.• Yet even now there is a sense of denial that could prove costly.• Mr Collin thinks that could prove costly and time consuming.• The war proved costly for both companies.• Vacant possession will be delayed and will prove costly, if not virtually impossible, to obtain.• Boeing Learns a Lesson in Predictability Mass layoffs prove costly in upswing when workers have taken skills, loyalty elsewhere.
cost·ly adjectiveadj
LDOCE Online
Chinese
Syllable
Corpus
IELTS BNC: 4943 COCA: 4286
costly

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITION VERBS➤be, become, prove昂貴；變得昂貴；證明代價高昂ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其／相當／非常昂貴▸➤enormously極為昂貴➤especially, particularly尤其／特別昂貴▸➤increasingly日益昂貴▸➤potentially可能花錢多的➤prohibitively昂貴得讓人無法負擔▸➤relatively相對價錢高的➤politically政治代價高昂的◇The candidate's mistake proved embarrassing and politically costly.事實證明候選人的這個錯誤不僅使他難堪，而且政治代價高昂。PREPOSITION➤for對⋯而言代價很高◇The six-month delay will be costly for the company.拖延半年對公司來說會造成嚴重損失。➤in在⋯方面代價高◇This process is costly in computer time.這個過程要耗費大量的計算機時間。➤in terms of以⋯衡量代價很高◇These teaching methods are too costly in terms of staff resources.這些教學方法需要耗費太多的師資。➤to對⋯而言代價高◇These measures could be costly to employers.這些措施對雇主來說可能會代價很高。
IELTS BNC: 4943 COCA: 4286
costly adj.
⇨ expensive
IELTS BNC: 4943 COCA: 4286
costly
General words for expensive: expensive, costly, exclusive...
Causing problems and disagreement: difficult, bad, embarrassing...

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 朗文詞典 📚 – longman.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime