Expensive

例句/造句/用法:

• She had not yet had any anxiety about ways and means, although her domestic life had been expensive as well as eventful. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• It was a long way off then, and the journey was expensive. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• Well-seasoned timber is an expensive article, sir; and all the iron handles come, by canal, from Birmingham. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
• One of his favourite amusements, we are told, was the expensive one of rolling elephants down precipitous places in order to watch their sufferings. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Generally speaking, meats are the most expensive foods we can purchase, and hence should be bought seldom and in small quantities. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• There is a surprisingly large amount of expensive machinery in the hair plant. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• 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.
• The strongest washing powder is soda, and this cheap form is as good as any of the more expensive preparations sold under fancy names. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• A musket is a more expensive machine than a javelin or a bow and arrows; a cannon or a mortar, than a balista or a catapulta. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it cost them two and thirty pounds. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
• Their clothing, therefore, had commonly been much more expensive. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• These great cable constructions, expensive as they were, were found more economical than horse power. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• This was very tedious and expensive work. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• Like our own war between the States, the Franco-Prussian war was an expensive one; but it was worth to France all it cost her people. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• These beginnings and crudities are very remote from the elaborate and expensive paraphernalia and machinery with which the art is furnished to-day. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• Furnishing was necessarily expensive; but then it had to be done only once. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• There is the width of the track, and it was only after a long and expensive contest that countries and corporations settled upon a uniform gauge. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• It is safe to say that electricity would never have been used on a large scale if some less expensive and more convenient source than zinc had not been found. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• If every record cylinder had to be made by the separate act of a performer such records would be very expensive. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• It's inconvenient--and it comes expensive. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• She has lots of expensive knowledge, sir, political and otherwise. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
• It had once been hung with a showy and expensive paper, which now hung mouldering, torn and discolored, from the damp walls. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• I thought the most expensive hobby in the world was standing for Parliament, said Mrs. Cadwallader. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• Those of the master shoemaker are a little, though but a very little, more expensive. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• This machine infringed the partners’ patents, and caused them an almost endless series of expensive lawsuits. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• After that the other mines of Great Britain discarded the old expensive Newcomen engine, and sent in orders for Watt’s. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• With Johnston and him combined, a long, tedious, and expensive campaign, consuming most of the summer, might become necessary. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• She knew she could not afford it, and she was afraid of acquiring so expensive a taste. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• They would have a front pew in the most expensive church in New York, and his name would figure handsomely in the list of parish charities. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• His character is now before you; expensive, dissipated, and worse than both. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.

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