expensive
英 [ɪk'spensɪv; ek-]
美 [ɪk'spɛnsɪv]
英語の語源
- expensive (adj.)
- 1620s, "given to profuse expenditure," from expense (n.) + -ive. Meaning "costly, requiring profuse expenditure" is from 1630s. Earlier was expenseful (c. 1600). Expenseless was in use mid-17c.-18c., but there seems now nothing notable to which it applies, and the dictionaries label it "obsolete." Related: Expensively; expensiveness.
例文
- 1. I get very nervous because I 'm using a lot of expensive equipment.
- 高価なデバイスをたくさん使用しているので、とても緊張しています。
- 2.The case against is twofold:too risky and too expensive .
- 反対理由には、冒険的で高価な点が2つあります。
- 3.They actually moved down from upstairs because the rent 's that expensive .
- 彼らは確かに階上から階下に引っ越した。家賃が高すぎるからだ。
- 4.Although they 're expensive ，they last forever and never go out of style.
- 高価であるにもかかわらず、耐久性があり、古くはありません。
- 5.Retooling，or recasting new toy moulds，is a slow and expensive process.
- 機械を交換したり、新しいおもちゃの金型を再鋳造したりするのは時間と財力がかかるプロセスです。
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