phrasal verbphr v informalPAY FORto pay a lot of money for something, especially unwillingly 〔尤指不情愿地〕花大价钱,付大笔钱
If you want the repairs done right, you’ll have to shell out at least $800.
如果你想好好修,至少得花 800 美元。
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She ended up shelling out for two rooms.
结果两个房间花了她一大笔钱。
Examples from the Corpus
shell out • Not wanting to shell out £1500 to £2500 for a replacement, he started looking around for a solution.• They had difficulties in re-paying, he took their benefit book, and they ended up shelling out £450.• He shelled out another $ 200.• But how readily will they shell out hundreds for a similar-sized piece of software?• We were expected to put our hands in our pockets and shell out regardless of whether or not we were getting value for money.• And for this sort of performance, local taxpayersshell out roughly $ 360,000 a year.