喜樂美語
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    /ɪkˈspensɪv/

    Costing a lot of money.

    貴的

    比較級 more expensive最高級 most expensive

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核心畫面

You can picture expensive as a price tag that makes you pause: getting this thing pulls a lot of money out of your pocket.

可以把 expensive 想成一張讓你遲疑的價錢標籤：要拿到這樣東西，得從口袋裡掏出很多錢。

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

expensiveadj/ɪkˈspɛnsɪv/

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    Having a high price or cost.

    • If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.
    • In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
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    computingengineeringmathematicsTaking a lot of system time or resources.

    • an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm
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    obsoleteGiven to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish.

    • […] And that he looked into his own affairs, and underſtood them; That he had, when abroad, been very expenſive; and contracted a large debt (for he made no ſecret of his affairs); […]
    • […] thus naturally generous and expenſive, he ſquandered away his money, and made a moſt ſplendid appearance upon the receipt of his quarterly appointment; […]
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    ball-gamescricketgamesHaving a high economy rate.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。