昂贵的

• Today we're all playing the price for our complacency .
  今天我们要为高傲自满付出昂贵的代价。
• Mr. thomas was forced to barter away his expensive watch .
  汤玛斯先生被迫以较便宜的价格出售他昂贵的表。
• The wages of both servants and journeymen frequently sink in dear years .
  在物价昂贵的年度，佣工和帮工的工资往往低落。
• We were monthly losing ships, including valuable tankers, by the score .
  我们每月所损失的船只，包括昂贵的油船在内，难以数计。
• Both require quite an expensive metabolic commitment on the part of the insect .
  对于昆虫，在这两方面都需要有很昂贵的代谢的义务。
• He drank expensive whisky, and he smoked luck strike cigarettes in the green package .
  他喝的是昂贵的威士忌酒，抽的是绿盒子里的幸福牌香烟。
• He bought an expensive coat for a girl in the hope that she would yield herself to him .
  他为一个姑娘买了件昂贵的大衣，希望这姑娘能委身于他。
• In one ad, a container of dangerous acid was suspended over an expensive fur coat .
  在一个广告节目中，一个盛有烈性酸的容器悬挂在一件昂贵的裘皮大衣上方。
• For all his talk about sports cars and swimming-pools he is just an ordinary bank-clerk .
  别看他大谈昂贵的汽车跑车和私人游泳池，其实他只不过是个银行的普通职员。
• Drains which pass under a house must be of cast iron, the most expensive material for pipe drains .
  穿过房屋下面的排水管道，必须使用铸铁管，这是排水管所用的最昂贵的材料。