Exorbitant
[ɪg'zɔːbɪt(ə)nt] or [ɪɡ'zɔrbɪtənt]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Extravagant, inordinate, excessive, enormous, unreasonable.
整理:普雷斯利
同義詞及反義詞:
[See EXCESSIVE]
手打:威利
解釋/意思:
adj. going beyond the usual limits: excessive.—ns. Exor′bitance Exor′bitancy extravagance: enormity.—adv. Exor′bitantly.—v.i. Exor′bitāte to stray.
編輯:特伦斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Their remoteness and unpunctuality, or their exorbitant charges and frauds, will be drawing forth bitter lamentations. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Anticipating an easier victory than she had foreseen, she named an exorbitant sum. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Hence the exorbitant price of the necessaries of life during the blockade of a town, or in a famine. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It was a crushing and exorbitant peace, dictated with the utmost arrogance of confident victors. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The exorbitant rewards of players, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The profit of those merchants would be almost equally exorbitant and oppressive. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Have the exorbitant profits of the merchants of Cadiz and Lisbon augmented the capital of Spain and Portugal? 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- These were exorbitant conditions, with which Rome should have been content. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Exorbitant desire for uniformity of procedure and for prompt external results are the chief foes which the open-minded attitude meets in school. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
編輯:特伦斯