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    expense查询结果如下:

    音标:[ɪk'spens] 现在分词:expensing
    过去式:expensed 过去分词:expensed
    名词复数:expenses 第三人称单数:expenses
    基本释义/说明:n.费用;花费;代价
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    n.
    ①[U]花费;消费;(精力,时间等的)消耗;
    spare no expense
    不惜费用.
    at the public (one`s own) expense
    公(自)费.
    ②[常用复]经费;成本;开支;
    household (domestic) expenses
    家庭开支.
    travelling expenses
    旅费.
    How much do you need for school expenses?
    你需要多少钱交学费?
    ②在损害…情况下;
    Those who try to profit at the expense of others will come to no good end.
    企图损人利己的人不会有好下场.
    at the expense of one`s health
    在损害健康的情况下.
    -扩展释义
    n.
    1. 费用;价钱;支出;消耗[S]2. 开支;经费[P]3. 牺牲;损失,代价[U]4. 费钱之物[S]
    Foreign tours involve a lot of expense.
    国外旅游需要很多费用
    n. 【电信】
    消耗,费用
    Foreign tours involve a lot of expense.
    国外旅游需要很多费用
    N/A
    消费,费用
    【海运】
    费用,开支
    【海运】
    耗费,消费(pl.)开支,经费,费用损失,损耗
    n. 【化学】
    花费,消费,经费
    -expense的不同词性形态

    形容词 变体/同根词

    Having a high price or cost. || (computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources.
    “It was an expensive treatment, but one that was necessary.”
    “Be very careful as you are going to be using equipment that is expensive and almost irreplaceable.”
    “She organized a dinner party at an expensive restaurant to celebrate her 40th birthday.”
    Able to be expended; not inexhaustible. || Designed for a single use; not reusable. || Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal. || Regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.
    “Therefore, we were expendable and they made sure we knew it.”
    Without cost or expense.
    Spent; used up; exhausted.
    Full of expense; costly; chargeable.

    名词 变体/同根词

    expense的过时拼写形式
    “The king of Amboina has a pension from the company, and a guard of European soldiers, maintained at its expence.”
    “When the expence of amanuenses and paper, and other articles are deducted, his clear profit was very inconsiderable.”
    “Both Harness and every Species of Mounture, and every other preparatory Expence is made by the Master in Dublin.”
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