costlier
英 [ˈkɒstlɪə]
美 [ˈkɔstliər]
adj. 花钱多的; 昂贵的; 价钱高的; 引起困难的; 造成损失的
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柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 昂贵的;价格高的
If you say that something iscostly, you mean that it costs a lot of money, often more than you would want to pay.- Having professionally made curtains can be costly, so why not make your own?
既然找专门人员做窗帘非常贵，为什么不自己做呢?
- Having professionally made curtains can be costly, so why not make your own?
- ADJ-GRADED 造成严重损失的;代价大的
If you describe someone's action or mistake ascostly, you mean that it results in a serious disadvantage for them, for example the loss of a large amount of money or the loss of their reputation.- Psychometric tests can save organizations from grim and costly mistakes...
心理测试能够使组织机构避免犯下损失惨重的大错。 - This sort of scandal in international banking has been politically costly.
国际银行业的这种丑闻一直以来都会造成极其恶劣的政治影响。
- Psychometric tests can save organizations from grim and costly mistakes...
双语例句
- Things were different& slower, costlier, stuck in red tape, less tangible, less experimental.
从此，情况有了变化&速度下降，成本上升，受到繁文缛节的束缚，不那么实际，也不那么有试验性。 - But if those measures are passed, America risks something far costlier than a switch to cleaner energy: a global trade war.
但是如果那些政策得以通过的话，美国就会面临比使用清洁能源成本要更高的风险：全球贸易战。 - Starting a thread is slightly costlier than before but most of the code can run in parallel after.
启动一个线程的开销比之前稍微高一点，但之后大部分代码都能并行运行。 - Exiting too early is costlier than exiting too late, he said this week.
太早退出比太晚退出的代价高，斯特劳斯-卡恩本周表示。 - The dead zone drives shrimp farther out to sea, making it costlier and more time-consuming to catch them.
死亡地带把虾赶往更远的海洋，进而需花更多成本，更多时间来捕捞它们。 - Like enriched uranium, hypocrisy can be costlier than it seems.
就如浓缩铀，伪善的代价比看起来的更高。 - However, there is an exemption for trading in US government securities but not other sovereigns, so it could reduce liquidity in non-US sovereign markets, making it more difficult, costlier and riskier for countries to issue and distribute debt.
然而，对美国国债交易却网开一面（而其他国家国债则不可以），因此这可能会减少非美国国债市场的流动性，加大其他国家发行和销售债券的难度、成本和风险。 - Based on how fast the mice sipped, they appeared to find the costlier sugar water more tasty.
根据它们喝水的速度推断，看来老鼠们觉得代价更高的糖水味道更好。 - The idea is that this would make French products more competitive, and imports costlier a sort of pseudo-devaluation.
法国政府的想法是，此举将提高本国产品的竞争力，同时让进口产品变得更昂贵这是一种“伪贬值”。 - Latinos are especially fond of dogs, which are costlier than cats, but superior in every respect.
拉美人特别喜欢狗，养狗成本要比猫高一些，但优越性也显而易见。