Cheapen
['tʃiːp(ə)n] or ['tʃipən]
解释:
(v. t.) To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.
(a.) To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate.
整理:罗莎
同义词及近义词：
v. a. [1]. Bid for, bargain for, ask the price of, try to get cheaper, haggle about, chaffer about.[2]. Make cheap, lessen in value.
编辑:诺拉
例句:
- He contrived so many little tools to cheapen the work that he made lots of money. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I must look into that: it would cheapen the repairs. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- It can be procured in almost any drug store, and since 1874 a new process in its manufacture has cheapened it in price and placed it within the reach of all. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Although it cost $33,000,000 and required seven years for completion, the labor-saving cableways greatly cheapened its cost and shortened the time of its construction. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The use of electric motors has greatly extended, cheapened, and expedited the street car service. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- And now since 1880, the chemists are pushing aside the vegetable processes, and substituting mineral processes, by which tanning is still further shortened and cheapened. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- I have been set down as tainted and should be cheapened to them all the same. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- It has so cheapened steel that it now competes with iron in price. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- While the process of manufacture was cheapened, the newer craftsmen wisely held to the art standards of the old masters. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- In 1882, however, a machine for doing this was invented, thereby dispensing with the old hand method and cheapening the operation. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Late improvements in the manufacture of inks are due to the discovery and cheapening of substances which can be used in preparing them. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Another was a cheapening of school-books. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- One of the incidents which caused a very great cheapening was that, when we started, one of the important processes had to be done by experts. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- For cheapening the cost of buttonholes, and reducing the hand labor, various buttonhole machines and attachments to sewing machines have been devised. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- A friend of mine was the other day cheapening some trifles at a shopkeeper's, and after a few words they agreed on a price. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
录入:玛格利特