cheaper

cheaper

英['tʃi:pər]美['tʃipər]

adj.廉价的( cheap的比较级 )，低俗的，劣质的，收费低廉的；

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This dress is really cheaper by comparison.比较起来, 这件衣服确实便宜。

A polyester shirt would be cheaper than a cotton one.涤纶衬衫比棉衬衫便宜。

Industrial unrest and cheaper imports played their part in the company’s reversal of fortunes.工业动荡和比较低廉的进口使公司形势恶化。

Subscriptions are cheaper for individual members.个人会员的订阅费要便宜些。

It’s annoying that we can’t travel until Thursday, but the upside is that the fare’s cheaper then.恼人的是我们星期四才能旅行, 但好处是票价会更便宜。

CDs would be far cheaper to produce without the glossy packaging.如果没有那些花哨的包装，CD 的生产成本会低得多。

Conductor : Pay by IC card is cheaper than cash.售票员: 用IC卡比现金便宜些.

I found cheaper products at an electrical shop.我在一家电气商店找到了更便宜的产品.

Cardboard's cheaper than leather in the short run.就短期来说硬纸板比皮革便宜.

Things are usually cheaper if you buy them in bulk.如果你整批买这些东西的话是较便宜的.

英语四级真题

But technology has reduced transaction costs, making sharing assets cheaper and easier than ever—and therefore possible on a much larger scale.

It is cheaper than calling long distance, and a lot more convenient than waiting until Sunday for the telephone rates to drop.

The supermarkets outside the city are so much cheaper.

As solar panels get cheaper, the world is likely to see more skyscrapers covered in solar panels, collecting energy much like trees do.

By contrast, a Danish tax on foods high in fats was abandoned a year after its introduction, amid claims that consumers were avoiding it by crossing the border to Germany to satisfy their desire for cheaper, fattier fare.

Economist Carl Weinberg believes the negative effects of plunging oil prices are overwhelming the positive effects of cheaper oil.

Even though pumping from these depths is expensive, it is still cheaper than desalinating (脱盐) the ocean water in the largely coastal state.

He has a lot of experience with boats, and it'll work out a lot cheaper to hire one if there's more of us to share the cost.

Henry Ford's Model T introduced in America in 1909 was cheaper because it was made on the assembly line.

Penny-pinching UK consumers choose cheaper products from discounters such as Aldi and Lidl rather than luxury alternatives.

The frozen oranges and apples are a little cheaper, and fruits are really good for the brain.

英语六级真题

It's not that robots are cheaper than humans, though often they are.

To move their companies to where labor is cheaper.

Well, for three days, you would have to have it under the unlimited mileage conditions, which will work out cheaper for Manchester anyway.

As a former high school teacher, I saw students choose familiar,cheaper options year after year.

As wood was so plentiful, it was cheaper to use than the stone used in the buildings of other European cultures.

Medicare could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if everyone used the cheaper drug, Avastin, instead of the costlier one, Lucentis.

Some are turning to the Internet, which is cheaper and offers concrete measurements like click-through rates—especially important at a time when marketing budgets are tight.

Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive for research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

ADJ-GRADED

便宜的;不贵的

Goods or services that are cheap cost less money than usual or than you expected.

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ADJ

不值钱的;质次价低的

If you describe goods as cheap, you mean they cost less money than similar products but their quality is poor.

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ADJ

（劳动力）廉价的

If you describe the cost of someone's work as cheap, you disapprove of the way people are taking advantage of a situation to pay someone less than they should for the work that they do.

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ADJ

(言行)讨便宜的，刻薄的，不怀好意的

If you describe someone's remarks or actions as cheap, you mean that they are unkindly or insincerely using a situation to benefit themselves or to harm someone else.

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ADJ

吝啬的;小气的

If you describe someone as cheap, you are criticizing them for being unwilling to spend money.

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PHRASE

人命不值钱;人命如草芥

You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.

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PHRASE

便宜第一;节省地

If someone does or buys something on the cheap, they spend less money than they should because they are more concerned with what it costs than with its quality.

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