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Low-end describes products or services that cost less and are usually of lower quality than others of the same kind. A low-end phone is the cheap one in the shop, not the best, most expensive model. Shops and reviews use it a lot. It is not a warm word, but it is not always an insult: some people want the low-end one because it is good enough and they do not want to pay more. The opposite idea is high-end. People also stretch it to work and markets: low-end jobs, the low-end of the market. It is about the cheap side of a range, not about a person being “low.”
低階、低價位(相對「高階」;中國大陸常說「低端」)
組成low(低)+ end(同一類東西裡偏便宜的那一端)
同家族的字
- high-endthe opposite: expensive and high quality
原始詞典資料1 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。
low-endadj
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Cheap, inexpensive or low-quality.
- Near-synonym: downmarket
- In trade, it is an almost infallible law that a hungry low-end market, an eager dumping grouund for the shoddiest work, is an irresistible market force.
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。