expense的意思是：n.费用；花费；代价。expense的词义辨析是n.(名词)expense, cost, outlay。expense的读音是英[?k'spens]；美[?k'spens]。
一、详尽释义点此查看expense的详细内容
n.(名词)- 费用，花费，开支，开销，花销
- 消耗，消费
- 价钱
- 损失，耗损
- 牺牲
- 花钱的东西
- 经费，业务费用
- 代价
- 花掉的钱
v.(动词)- 把…作为开支勾销
二、双解释义
n.(名词)- [S][U]消耗,花费 cost in money, time or effort
- [P]花费的钱,费用 money spent in doing sth
三、英英释义
Noun:- amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
- a detriment or sacrifice;
"at the expense of"
- money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer;
"he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting"
Verb:- reduce the estimated value of something;
"For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer"
四、例句
It's too much of an expense for me to own a car.
对我来说，拥有一辆汽车的花费太大。
Societies should try to save every plant and animal species, regardless of the expense to humans in effort, time, and financial well-being.
社会应尽力挽救每一动植物物种,不管花费多少人力、时间和财力。
Don't involve yourself in unnecessary expense.
勿做不必要的花费。
He finished the job at the expenses of his health.
他以牺牲健康完成了这项工作。
That's why a reduction in price can never be made at the expense of quality.
正因为如此,降低价格的同时,并不能以牺牲质量为代价。
五、常用短语
用作名词(n.)
- at sb's expense
捉弄某人against sb, so as to make them seem silly
- at the expense of
在损失〔损坏〕某事物的情况下with loss or damage to sth
- go to the expense of
在某事上花钱spend money on sth
- put sb to the expense of
使某人花钱于某事上cause sb to spend money on sth
- spare no expense
不惜费用with no regard for the cost
六、词汇搭配
用作名词 (n.)
动词+～形容词+～名词+～介词+～～+介词七、词义辨析
n.(名词)- expense, cost, outlay
- 这三个名词的共同意思是“花费,费用”。其区别是：
- 1.cost指为获得或生产某物所费的金额,是时间、劳力等的总计。一般指日常生活的开销,也可指劳力、服务等的“费用”“花费”; expense则含有较不确定的意味,泛指“费”“费用”; 而outlay则指为一定目的而花费的金额。例如:
- She built the house without regard to cost.她盖这房子根本不在乎花多少钱。
- The expense of a good education is great.受到好的教育需要一大笔费用。
- We need a large outlay on scientific research.我们需要科学研究的大量费用。
- 2.cost和outlay既可用作动词,又可用作名词,而expense只能用作名词,其动词形式为expend。
- charge，price，fee，fare，cost，expense
- 这些名词均有“价格，费用”之意。
- charge指提供服务时索取的费用，也指货物的价格、价钱。
- price指商品在市场出售的价格，尤指卖方对商品所提出的单价。比喻意义指付出的代价。
- fee指上学、求医以及找律师等付的费用，还可指会费、借书费等。
- fare侧重指旅行时所付的车、船费等费用。
- cost指生产某东西的成本，也泛指商品的价格，可与price换用。
- expense常指实际支付的费用总数额，有时也指钱的花费。
expense的相关近义词
charge、cost、outlay
expense的相关反义词
gain、income、profit
expense的相关临近词
expensive、expenditure、expenses、expense cost、expense item、expense view、expense paid、expense fund、expense loss、expense book、expense code、expenses rate
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