Exorbitant
[ɪg'zɔːbɪt(ə)nt] or [ɪɡ'zɔrbɪtənt]
解释:
(adj.) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; 'exorbitant rent'; 'extortionate prices'; 'spends an outrageous amount on entertainment'; 'usurious interest rate'; 'unconscionable spending' .
手打:露西娅--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims.
(a.) Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous.
整理:罗拉
同义词及近义词：
a. Extravagant, inordinate, excessive, enormous, unreasonable.
整理:普雷斯利
同义词及反义词：
[See EXCESSIVE]
手打:威利
解释:
adj. going beyond the usual limits: excessive.—ns. Exor′bitance Exor′bitancy extravagance: enormity.—adv. Exor′bitantly.—v.i. Exor′bitāte to stray.
编辑:特伦斯
例句:
- Their remoteness and unpunctuality, or their exorbitant charges and frauds, will be drawing forth bitter lamentations. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- Anticipating an easier victory than she had foreseen, she named an exorbitant sum. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Hence the exorbitant price of the necessaries of life during the blockade of a town, or in a famine. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It was a crushing and exorbitant peace, dictated with the utmost arrogance of confident victors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The exorbitant rewards of players, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The profit of those merchants would be almost equally exorbitant and oppressive. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Have the exorbitant profits of the merchants of Cadiz and Lisbon augmented the capital of Spain and Portugal? 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- These were exorbitant conditions, with which Rome should have been content. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Exorbitant desire for uniformity of procedure and for prompt external results are the chief foes which the open-minded attitude meets in school. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
编辑:特伦斯