Expensive

(adj.) high in price or charging high prices; 'expensive clothes'; 'an expensive shop' .

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• She had not yet had any anxiety about ways and means, although her domestic life had been expensive as well as eventful. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It was a long way off then, and the journey was expensive. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Well-seasoned timber is an expensive article, sir; and all the iron handles come, by canal, from Birmingham. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• One of his favourite amusements, we are told, was the expensive one of rolling elephants down precipitous places in order to watch their sufferings. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Generally speaking, meats are the most expensive foods we can purchase, and hence should be bought seldom and in small quantities. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• There is a surprisingly large amount of expensive machinery in the hair plant. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He gave me my watch and chain, and spared no expense in buying them; both were of superior workmanship, and very expensive. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The strongest washing powder is soda, and this cheap form is as good as any of the more expensive preparations sold under fancy names. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• A musket is a more expensive machine than a javelin or a bow and arrows; a cannon or a mortar, than a balista or a catapulta. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it cost them two and thirty pounds. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Their clothing, therefore, had commonly been much more expensive. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• These great cable constructions, expensive as they were, were found more economical than horse power. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• This was very tedious and expensive work. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Like our own war between the States, the Franco-Prussian war was an expensive one; but it was worth to France all it cost her people. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• These beginnings and crudities are very remote from the elaborate and expensive paraphernalia and machinery with which the art is furnished to-day. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Furnishing was necessarily expensive; but then it had to be done only once. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• There is the width of the track, and it was only after a long and expensive contest that countries and corporations settled upon a uniform gauge. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It is safe to say that electricity would never have been used on a large scale if some less expensive and more convenient source than zinc had not been found. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• If every record cylinder had to be made by the separate act of a performer such records would be very expensive. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It's inconvenient--and it comes expensive. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• She has lots of expensive knowledge, sir, political and otherwise. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• It had once been hung with a showy and expensive paper, which now hung mouldering, torn and discolored, from the damp walls. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I thought the most expensive hobby in the world was standing for Parliament, said Mrs. Cadwallader. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Those of the master shoemaker are a little, though but a very little, more expensive. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• This machine infringed the partners’ patents, and caused them an almost endless series of expensive lawsuits. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• After that the other mines of Great Britain discarded the old expensive Newcomen engine, and sent in orders for Watt’s. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• With Johnston and him combined, a long, tedious, and expensive campaign, consuming most of the summer, might become necessary. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• She knew she could not afford it, and she was afraid of acquiring so expensive a taste. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• They would have a front pew in the most expensive church in New York, and his name would figure handsomely in the list of parish charities. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• His character is now before you; expensive, dissipated, and worse than both. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.

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