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单词 expensively
释义
expensively
adverb
uk
/ɪkˈspen.sɪv.li/us
/ɪkˈspen.sɪv.li/
in anexpensiveway:
Sarah is always expensivelydressed(=wearingexpensiveclothes).
Thehouseswere wellsituatedand expensivelyfurnished.
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More examples
  • He is from aprivilegedbackgroundand was expensivelyeducated.
  • I can'tstandpeoplewho make thingscheaplyand thensellthem expensively.
  • The 18th-centurybuildinghas now beenextensively- and very expensively -restored.
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  • gold plate
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  • grandness
  • luxury goods
  • no expense is sparedidiom
  • opulent
  • precious
  • prestige
  • priceless
  • sumptuous
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(Definition ofexpensivelyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

expensively| Business English

expensively
adverb
/ɪkˈspensɪvli/uk
us
for a lot ofmoney:
Thepresentsystemdeliversservicespoorlyand expensively.
expensively priced/produced/dressedIt is hard tosellexpensivelypricedcleantechnologyvehiclesincountrieswith noemissionscontrols.
(Definition ofexpensivelyfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexpensively

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At that point her material circumstances improved considerably (her new husband was a wealthy businessman) and they lived in owner-occupied houses orexpensivelyrented flats.
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Chapter 7 deals with advanced instrumental analyses that demandexpensivelyequipped laboratories with expert staff.
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I know: they send me their magazine, and there they all are, grinningexpensivelyfrom their shiny pages.
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Local pride and local feelings were intensely felt andexpensivelyexpressed, concretized and thus reinforced by the scale, location and symbolism of civic cultural capital.
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A distinction is made between reliability achieved,expensively, by physical redundancy or simple duplication of facilities, and that achieved by analytical redundancy.
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The mill, as its name suggests, wasexpensivelyequipped with the most modern plant and machinery.
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With only so muchexpensivelyannotated training material, there is a ceiling on what existing statistical systems can achieve, and we have by-and-large reached that limit.
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There, she would be able to live more cheaply, since she would not have to pay rent for accommodation and food could be got lessexpensivelytoo.
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Most of the manufactures established with government subsidies and privileges operated tooexpensivelyand therefore found few customers - which exposes the techniques they were based on!
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With their wide, wasteful verges which have to beexpensivelymown, they use up 40 acres a mile.
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I have always wondered why one should sneer at the idea of having anything more cheaply rather than moreexpensively.
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Surely a conciliatory rather than an adversarial approach is more likely to clear up the problem more quickly and lessexpensively.
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All of it isexpensivelyproduced, much of it is redundant and much of it is unread because teachers cannot keep up with it.
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We have to record the fact that someone has blundered and blundered veryexpensively.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The reason why it cost so much was that it was advertisedexpensively.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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