Expense

例句/造句/用法:

• This expense, however, it must be acknowledged, is more moderate in Great Britain than in most other countries. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Provisions are thereby rendered dearer, in the same manner as if it required extraordinary labour and expense to raise them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• You haven't seen my private expense book yet. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
• Such colonies, therefore, have been a source of expense, and not of revenue, to their respective mother countries. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Don't pay yourself at another man's expense (which is foolish), but be business-like! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• Great Britain has hitherto suffered her subject and subordinate provinces to disburden themselves upon her of almost this whole expense. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• But though the wear and tear of a free servant be equally at the expense of his master, it generally costs him much less than that of a slave. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• The proportion of the expense of house-rent to the whole expense of living, is different in the different degrees of fortune. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Another woman was laughing or sneering at her expense, and he not angry. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• In those days the principal expense of the sovereign seems to have consisted in the maintenance of his own family and household. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• He gave me my watch and chain, and spared no expense in buying them; both were of superior workmanship, and very expensive. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• We are perhaps apt to emphasize the control of the body at the expense of control of the environment. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• When the expense of fashionable dress is very great, the variety must be very small. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Britain, at the expense of three millions, has killed one hundred and fifty Yankees this campaign, which is 20,000_l. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
• The expense of a riding school is so great, that in most places it is a public institution. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• And for present expenses? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
• I certainly did not see the proof of Mr. Skimpole's worldliness in his having his expenses paid by Richard, but I made no remark about that. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• Take 'em for expenses? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• Other great and inevitable expenses too we have had on first coming to Norland. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
• You may guess, after all these expenses, how very far we must be from being rich, and how acceptable Mrs. Ferrars's kindness is. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
• For this express reason, I had borrowed the half-guinea, that I might not be without a fund for my travelling-expenses. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• He is intent upon various new expenses,--horses, and carriages, and lavish appearances of all kinds. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• And he is worth--not to say his sordid expenses--but thrice his weight in gold, said Richard. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• The rent of a very moderate landed estate might be fully sufficient for defraying all the other necessary expenses of government. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Such expenses are in this system called ground expenses (depenses foncieres). 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• It may be very inconvenient some years to spare a hundred, or even fifty pounds from our own expenses. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
• Keep the expenses down. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• But these I have likewise endeavoured to show, in the same book, are expenses by which people are not very apt to ruin themselves. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Tell me, at least, the expenses of the republic, for no doubt you intend to retrench the superfluous? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
• I'll pay all expenses, and a fair reward into the bargain. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

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