[ 比较级 costlier或more costly 最高级 costliest或most costly ]
同义词: dearly-won
"costly jewelry"
同义词: dear(p) high-priced pricey pricy
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ADJ If you say that something is costly, you mean that it costs a lot of money, often more than you would want to pay. 昂贵的
Having professionally made curtains can be costly, so why not make your own?
买专业制造的窗帘可能很贵,你为什么不自己做呢?
You want to avoid costly legal proceedings if you can.
如果能够的话你希望避免昂贵的法律诉讼。
The best equipment is costly but is well worth the outlay.
最好的设备花费大,但这种开支很值得。
Buying new furniture may prove too costly.
购买新家具可能会花钱太多。
The researchers knew it would be easier and less costly to map a smaller frog with fewer chromosomal pairs.
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We'll see later on, there are classes of computation that are inherently much more complex. We hate them, because they're costly, but they're sometimes inherently that way.
我们会稍后详细的讲讲这个,有许多内在更加复杂的种类的算法,我们痛恨它们,因为它们很耗时。
They make it very costly, socially costly, to divorce, so then they stay together for all kinds of reasons, not always such good ones.
离婚社会代价太大,因此双方由于各种原因不分开,不是所有原因都是好的。
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