expense
/ɪkˈspɛns/ 名词 B1中文： 费用、花费
- A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds. · She went to great expense to ensure her children would get the best education.· Buying the car was a big expense, but will be worth it in the long run.
- The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated. · Jones reached the final at the expense of Smith, who couldn't beat him.
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To this speech Bingley made no answer; but his sisters gave it their hearty assent, and indulged their mirth for some time at the expense of their dear friend’s vulgar relations.
“My dearest Lizzy will, I am sure, be incapable of triumphing in her better judgment, at my expense, when I confess myself to have been entirely deceived in Miss Bingley’s regard for me.
Where there is fortune to make the expense of travelling unimportant, distance becomes no evil.
“Our habits of expense make us too dependent, and there are not many in my rank of life who can afford to marry without some attention to money.”
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