Expensive

1·Food was scarce and expensive.

食物匮乏而且昂贵。

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2·Her black suit was restrained and expensive.

她的黑色套装素净且昂贵。

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3·The food was not actually all that expensive.

食品居然并不那么昂贵。

—— 《牛津词典》

4·I spend a lot on expensive jewellery and clothing.

我在昂贵的首饰和衣服上开销很大。

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5·Smoked salmon was considered an expensive delicacy.

熏三文鱼被认为是一道昂贵的佳肴。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

1·The meal was ridiculously expensive.

这顿饭贵得离谱。

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2·It's a tad too expensive for me.

这对我来说稍微贵了一点儿。

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3·They are very expensive, I presume?

我想这些东西很贵吧？

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4·That dress was an expensive mistake.

那件连衣裙看走眼买贵了。

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5·Tickets are likely to be expensive.

入场券可能很贵。

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1·The other one was much too expensive.

另一个太贵了。

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2·I can't afford it, it's too expensive.

我买不起，太贵了。

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3·I can't afford it—it's just too expensive for me.

我买不起，对我来说这太贵了。

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4·This dress is really nice. Pity it's so expensive.

这件连衣裙真不错。只可惜太贵了。

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5·It was too expensive, to say nothing of the time it wasted.

这太贵了，更不用说它浪费的时间了。

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1·I was rush into buying these expensive boots.

我是在匆忙中仓促决定买下这双价格昂贵的靴子的。

—— 《新英汉大辞典》

2·In France, card companies created EMV in part because the telephone monopoly was so maddeningly inefficient and expensive.

在法国，信用卡公司创建了 EMV，部分原因是电话垄断的效率低得令人抓狂，而且价格昂贵。

3·The only sound in the darkness was the whirring of an expensive camera on auto-rewind.

唯一的声音就是一部价格昂贵的照相机自动倒卷时所发出的声音。

4·In short, if there's such a thing as a true price level, it cannot be altered by expensive goods anymore than cheap imports can drive it down.

概而言之，如果存在一个真实的物价水平，则无论价格昂贵的商品还是廉价的进口都不可能给它带来必然的改变。

5·Second, he makes more readily available some common item which previously had been more difficult or more expensive to obtain for his customers, thus easing one, if only minor, aspect of their lives.

其次，他向消费者提供这种生活必需品，使他们更容易买到原本供不应求或者价格昂贵的产品，因此提高了——即使只是轻微地提高了——他们的生活质量。