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词汇 expensively
释义 expensively
adverb
uk /ɪkˈspen.sɪv.li/ us /ɪkˈspen.sɪv.li/
in an expensive way: 昂贵地
Sarah is always expensively dressed (= wearing expensive clothes).莎拉总是穿着昂贵(穿昂贵的衣服)。
The houses were well situated and expensively furnished.这些房子位置优越,家具昂贵。
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He is from a privileged background and was expensively educated.
I can't stand people who make things cheaply and then sell them expensively.
The 18th-century building has now been extensively - and very expensively - restored.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Expensive & luxurious
be expensive to do
champagne
costliness
costly
expense
extravagance
gold plate
graciousness
grandly
lush
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luxurious
luxury
luxury goods
plushly
poshly
poshness
preciousness
premium-rate
ritzy

expensively | Business English


expensively
adverb
/ɪkˈspensɪvli/ukus
for a lot of money:
The present system delivers services poorly and expensively.
expensively priced/produced/dressedIt is hard to sell expensively priced clean technology vehicles in countries with no emissions controls.

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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 or expensively rented flats.
Chapter 7 deals with advanced instrumental analyses that demand expensively equipped laboratories with expert staff.
I know: they send me their magazine, and there they all are, grinning expensively from their shiny pages.
Local pride and local feelings were intensely felt and expensively expressed, concretized and thus reinforced by the scale, location and symbolism of civic cultural capital.
A distinction is made between reliability achieved, expensively, by physical redundancy or simple duplication of facilities, and that achieved by analytical redundancy.
The mill, as its name suggests, was expensively equipped with the most modern plant and machinery.
With only so much expensively annotated training material, there is a ceiling on what existing statistical systems can achieve, and we have by-and-large reached that limit.
There, she would be able to live more cheaply, since she would not have to pay rent for accommodation and food could be got less expensively too.
Most of the manufactures established with government subsidies and privileges operated too expensively and therefore found few customers - which exposes the techniques they were based on!
With their wide, wasteful verges which have to be expensively mown, 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 more expensively.
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Surely a conciliatory rather than an adversarial approach is more likely to clear up the problem more quickly and less expensively.
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All of it is expensively produced, 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 very expensively.
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The reason why it cost so much was that it was advertised expensively.
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