costly 

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单词释义
adj.花钱多的,昂贵的,价钱高的,引起困难的,造成损失的
词根词缀记忆/谐音联想记忆 补充/纠错
词根cost 代价 + ly 如…的,有…性质的,属于… …………
词性拓展记忆 / 词形拓展记忆
原形:costly比较级:costlier最高级:costliest
辨析记忆
dear / expensive / costly
这些形容词都表示物品价格“高的,昂贵的”之意。
dear → 侧重指要价过高,或远高于公道、合理的价格,其反义词是cheap。
expensive → 指物品的价格超过了它本身所值,或超过了购买者的支付能力。
costly → 指物品价格高,通常是因物 …………
词根记忆 / 词缀记忆
costly a 昂贵的(cost代价)
-ly
(1)表形容词,通常加在名词后
otherworldly a 超俗的(otherworld 超世)
spindly a 细长的(spindle纺锤)
timely a 及时的(time时 …………
词组和短语补充/纠错
costly medical equipment 贵重的医疗设备
a costly mistake 造成重大损失的错误
单词例句
It's very costly to take the risk.
冒这个险代价很大。
It was a costly error.
那是一次代价很大的错误。
The victory is costly.
这一胜利的代价很高。
It is less costly to freight merchandise than to mail it.
货运商品比邮寄省钱。
Earlier, traditional printing and dyeing technology — which involved the costly process of making the screen and paste — used to lead to excessive wastage that harmed the environment.
早些时候,传统的印染技术——包括制作丝网和浆糊的昂贵过程——曾经导致过度浪费,损害环境。
The production process was usually labor-intensive and required high artistic skill, and thus was pretty costly.
生产过程通常是劳动密集型的,需要很高的艺术技能,因此成本相当高。
Airbnb formally launched its Chinese mainland business in 2016 but has withdrawn because the "domestic segment is costly and complex to operate" and "the COVID-19 pandemic worsened these issues and heightened their impact," the company said in a statement.
Airbnb在一份声明中表示,该公司于2016年正式推出中国大陆业务,但已退出,因为“国内业务运营成本高昂且复杂”,“新冠肺炎疫情加剧了这些问题,并加剧了其影响”。
They are considered rare because they appear in low concentrations in nature and are difficult and costly to mine and process.
它们被认为是罕见的,因为它们在自然界中的浓度很低,开采和加工困难且成本高昂。
Chun said the company will stay in the fresh produce category, and maintain its premium pricing strategy, owing to the costly smart agriculture system (they use substrates to grow the fruits) to human labor to handpicking the fragile fruits.
""It's a costly fine, but as the market has already factored in the bad news, there are reasons to be bullish now," said Liu Xingliang, a member of the Telecommunications Economics Expert Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
It said the increased capacity from the new finds will help meet the surging demand for natural gas in northern and eastern China and reduce the country's reliance on costly imports.
"Investing in 5G has a lot of benefits chief among them is efficient and effective communication that is less costly," Brian David Chamberlin, one of the ICT experts said.
Ren categorizes the sector as having content between 1 minute to 30 minutes, most of which are displayed through horizontal screen shots, and involve more costly professionally generated content compared with short videos.
Even though the country has achieved a notable breakthrough in containing the spread of the disease nationwide, the China National Textile and Apparel Council said in a statement this month that labor shortages, poor logistics and costly shipping prices are limiting the ability of companies seeking to resume production.
For education startups, maintaining high-quality real-time voice and video is usually difficult and costly.
The huge financial input was a combined result of costly transportation associated with high altitudes and the central government's efforts to curtail costs for airlines offering flights to Tibet, according to Yu Wenzhong, a senior finance official with the conglomerate's Tibetan division, created in 2007.
A successful Hong Kong share sale could help finance a costly war of subsidies with Meituan Dianping in food delivery and travel, and divert investor cash from rivals like Meituan and WeChat operator Tencent.
Finding new customers in an economic downturn almost certainly would be time-consuming and costly.
It will be too costly a price to pay," Yan said.
Selling directly to a much larger set of customers while bypassing costly intermediaries will "improve productivity and profitability", Kagame said.
Pfeiffer noted that tackling piracy can be time intensive and costly but the company stands to "reap longer-term benefits in both stopping current infringement and deterring future ones".
He noted that all mobile marketers, Chinese included, want to improve their apps' performance, but finding the right data to inform marketing decisions can be a time-consuming and costly process.
He noted that Rwandan producers will be able to sell directly to a much larger set of customers than before while bypassing costly intermediaries.
He said it is very time-consuming and costly for patients to repeatedly visit a hospital, especially for those who live in remote places but need to meet with doctors in big cities.
"Nowadays, we rely too much on the research center of our Japanese headquarters, which is quite time-consuming and costly," said Yamashita, who expects significant enhancement on R&D efficiency and the products' competitiveness after the new base comes into service.
Du explained that transformative medicine is very costly in terms of research and development.
In five years, the solar power systems, mostly in very remote areas where grid access is costly and logistically challenging, has helped provide rural end-users with clean and affordable lighting products.
Africa's landmark free trade area aims to transform global and intra-continental exchanges, boost manufacturing and create jobsBefore investing $400,000 to set up a transformer manufacturing plant in Kenya, the managing director of Yocean Group Ltd, Dylan Yu, conducted a feasibility study that found manufacturing locally would be costly due to poor value chains.
"Mental health issues can also be costly in financial terms.
Opening stores is very complicated and costly.
The marriage is considered an effective move to end a costly battle, as the two players are seen as such close rivals that no winner was likely in the short term.
China has an aging population, while there are also chronic disease threats, which are costly and affect the quality of life.
Parties should not buy vehicles nonessential for business operations, take vacations, send children to expensive private schools, or buy costly insurance and wealth management products.
"Looking beyond bike-sharing program, Coyle said there could be room for other ideas from the Chinese sharing economy that could succeed in the UK, especially costly items that are not used all the time.
"It is still a little bit costly to design individual trips," he said.
"My personal understanding is that compliance is now no longer considered a costly add-on to business but a vital function in reducing risks," Zhong said.
His views were echoed by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization, who called for more efforts to build global resilience and said that decoupling and fragmentation will be costly for the world.
Decoupling and fragmentation will be costly for the world, said Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization on Tuesday.
Moreover, I believe that at a time when multinational corporations are suffering from low cash flows as the global economy recovers, raising more money to rebuild supply chains outside China is both unwise and costly, because China's infrastructure for foreign trade is mature and has been tested by time.
"Before the railway went into operation, our main businesses were focused on trucking transportation, which was not only time-consuming, but costly, with lots of uncontrollable factors.
Exporters pin hopes on policies aimed to bolster logistics, financial services, biz growthWhether it is buying production materials, keeping close contact with regular clients in developed markets, or preventing business orders from being grabbed by rivals in Vietnam, almost everything is more costly, unreliable and challenging these days for Wang Chunsong, chairman of Color Star (Fuzhou) Products, an exporter of home decor in Fuzhou, Fujian province.
Business leaders and experts also noted at the forum that ample space remains for cooperation between the world's two biggest economies and that the so-called decoupling between China and the United States, if realized, will be very costly for both sides and for the world as a whole.
"Some enterprises may lose confidence in digital transformation because mistakes are costly," said Wang Kefei, CEO of Inclution.
Moreover, at a time when multinational corporations are suffering from low cash flows amid the world's economic recovery, raising more money to restructure their supply chains outside China certainly is unwise and costly, because China's infrastructure for foreign trade is mature and has been time-tested.
"Pushed by costly ocean shipping container prices and fear of a disrupted supply chain caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many overseas clients started to place their orders as early as February and March.
Of course, all this is going to be fairly time-consuming and costly for all the parties concerned, including families, the governments, related businesses and service providers like banks, insurers, hospitals and educational institutions.
The research and development cycle is long and costly, he said.
Smaller online businesses with relatively low sales volumes were unable or unwilling to accept credit card payments due to high transaction fees, and it was too costly to build their own e-commerce checkout systems with sufficient fraud protection.
But now, using social media and livestreaming e-commerce, domestic companies can do marketing with small investments and directly influence customers, rather than hiring costly advertising companies to make and deliver creative advertisements.
"The vote didn't make either more or less likely, but made the pursuit of the former more costly," he said.
Zhu Shaolin, research director of the hydrogen department at Trend-Bank, an emerging industry research and consulting company, said that compared with hydrogen tube trailers, the current primary long-distance hydrogen transport method in China and worldwide — which is both costly and inefficient — pipeline transportation of hydrogen is an important method for achieving large-scale, long-distance and cost-effective movement of the chemical.
Currently, trucking is still the mainstay long-distance hydrogen transport method, which is costly and inefficient.
Clean hydrogen, meanwhile, will significantly contribute to decarbonization where direct electrification is not feasible or too costly, he said.
Zero-carbon steel production could be costly due to the higher operational, research and development and capital expenditures needed to replace existing facilities.
While more costly and expensive compared with the primary and secondary recovery stages, it can extract more of a reserve's oil compared with primary and secondary recoveries.
Therefore, hiring younger and proper labor workers is becoming more costly for us and we are hoping for more policy incentives in this regard," he said.
"Developing an autonomous driving system is costly, so some carmakers buy the driver-assistance system from suppliers.
Li from the CPCIA believes that while refining — one of the world's most emissions-intensive industrial activities — faces major challenges from costly carbon exposure, the threat will also promote technological innovation and industrial upgrading in the sector.
"Raising prices of rare resources will spur numerous business opportunities in fields like circular economy, while making carbon emissions more costly is likely to propel more investors to turn to the new energy sector and green transition of the traditional energy sector while attracting more businesses to relevant markets," said Lin Boqiang, head of the China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy at Xiamen University.
"Although a pack of cards only costs about 10 yuan, it can be costly as the company keeps launching new cards and my son wants to collect them all.
Wei Hanyang, a power market analyst at research firm BloombergNEF, believes the country's renewable energy will see steady growth and solar power will embrace another wave of massive installations given that solar module prices may settle at a less costly level.
"Developing rooftop solar power units has many advantages, like not requiring costly transmission infrastructure, and they require minimal maintenance, sport efficient power generation and make up an important part of China's solar sector development," Lin said.
"In addition, developing rooftop solar systems has no need for costly transmission infrastructure, requires minimal maintenance and generates efficient power, making it an important part of China's development of the solar industry," he said.
In contrast, a micro-vacation needs little planning and relatively less time, and is also less costly.
Transporting wind power from west to east is costly, and eastern regions have limited land resources to establish wind farms.
"Phase 3 trials are usually more advanced and costly trials involving a larger number of subjects.
Steel accounts for more than 20 percent of total shipbuilding costs and is the most costly part in the whole process.
"However, due to limited logistics solutions, which mainly rely on costly and time-consuming ocean shipping and road traffic, the costs of shipping our products to Russia and the CEECs, as well as Central Asia, were relatively high.
"Most plastic straws in China are buried in landfills as other means of disposal are much more costly or lack technical support.
China is likely to include shale oil exploration and development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25) to cut its reliance on costly imports and bolster energy security, experts said.
"Such services can be fairly costly," he said, adding minor or regular maintenance usually costs between $100,000 and $150,000, while more complex processes such as desulfurization system restoration generally cost several million dollars.
China has made remarkable progress in rare disease care, as treatments have become available in China's market for most rare diseases, yet patients suffering from some rare diseases that require costly medication are still in need of more support, according to a new report.
It also suggested establishing a national fund to ensure rare disease patients can receive costly treatment.
Compared with costly advertisements, livestreaming is more efficient in attracting tourists, he said.
The price tag is usually too costly to obtain traffic support from the platform.
The process of extracting and refining them is labor-and resource-intensive - and costly - so little is produced.
"Land can be very costly, and that is one of the reasons why most CSP projects are being built in Northwest China where land prices are relatively lower, and of course they have good sunlight resources," Lin said.
"For example, a luxury-brand handbag will be costly, but a lipstick from the same brand would be much more affordable to consumers," Zhen said.
The high popularity of Lego toys in China makes costly toy products easier to be sold to Chinese customers, Tong said.
To enhance domestic crude production, on the other hand, also requires more capital expenditure, which is especially challenging against predictions of future oil wells fading and domestic output falling with new discoveries tending to be smaller and more costly, said Li Li, research director at energy consulting company ICIS China.
"Many recycling processes, such as electrosmelting, are environmentally friendly and a lot less costly to steel-makers when compared with importing raw materials or mining, and then processing," he said.
At first, most fellow villagers did not believe such greenhouses could work because they were costly.
Among the costs, wedding ceremonies proved to be the most costly, taking up 40 percent of the total spending.
But now all I have to do is press a button," Ma said, adding that automative fertilizing offers a less costly way of planting.
Preparing for a wedding is costly, but since we get married only once in a lifetime, I don't want to have any regrets," Lin said.
Xiao also noted that the company is eyeing more potential markets, especially those involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, as those countries have preferential policies to encourage mutual trade, and the increasing routes linking China with those countries guarantee less costly logistics.
Xiao also said the company is now eyeing more markets to develop, especially those involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, as those countries have preferential policies to encourage mutual trade, and the increasing routes linking China with those countries guarantee a less costly logistics.
The Detroit automaker shrugged off a hit from a costly auto strike to report new vehicle sales of about 2.6 million units for 2023 in the US, up 14.1 percent from 2022, while Toyota's annual sales rose 6.6 percent to about 2.25 million vehicles.
While some people say battery swapping stations are a costly investment, NIO argues that battery swapping is both a quicker solution to powering up EVs as well as an energy storage facility to improve grid stability.
Volkswagen, partially because it wanted to get rid of the stigma of its costly "dieselgate" scandal, was the first to announce heavy investment plans in electric cars.
ai aims to make autonomous driving less costly.
Its first two models based on the costly MEB platform started to be delivered in late March, another two larger ones followed in the middle of the year, and a fifth was launched last week to further enrich the offerings.
"It is tiring to drive and costly to hail a taxi.
The development and testing of autonomous driving functions are costly.
According to Zhang Qinggang, vice-president of the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, while the capital expenditure of a battery swapping station is significantly higher due to the costly battery packs, it is highly likely the price will fall as battery price drops.
It has similar capabilities as optical sensors like lidars but is less costly, the company said.
An said developing an architecture is costly, and some carmakers may want to use those by other carmakers.
Despite Musk's threat, it would be costly and difficult to quickly shift production from Fremont to Texas or Nevada.
A lack of refueling stations, which are costly to build, is usually cited as the biggest obstacle to widespread adoption of FCVs.
The follow-up investment in the technology research and development as well as the plant upgrades and renovation are also costly, they said.
Initial investment for a hydrogen station with hydrogenation capacity of around 200 kilograms is 10 million yuan, as key components including hydrogenation guns, pumps and valves are highly dependent on imports which are costly, said Wang Weimin, an expert with CNPC.
But hybrids are still a costly option for the South American country, according to Gorriz.
Non-petrol vehicles will attract more customers in the future because they are more environmentally friendly and less costly, as the local gas prices have risen lately, partly due to the lifting of subsidies on energy amid the country's economic austerity reforms.
"That kind of technology could enable and augment autonomous driving applications, and make autonomous driving technologies and capabilities even safer and possibly less costly," Tsien added.
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考研It's not necessarily a bad thing, but depending on the school, it can be costly to make up credits after switching too late in the game.

这不一定是一件坏事,但根据学校的不同,在游戏切换太晚后补学分可能会很昂贵。

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级It is more costly than what our ancestors ate.

它比我们祖先吃的东西更贵。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Travel was arduous and costly throughout the period, possible only for a privileged class—the same that produced gentlemen scientists, authors, antique experts, and patrons of the arts.

在整个时期,旅行是艰苦而昂贵的,只有特权阶层才有可能,而这些特权阶层造就了绅士科学家、作家、古董专家和艺术赞助人。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级They find it costly to give up their existing assets

他们发现放弃现有资产代价高昂

2013年6月阅读原文

考研But at least they have demonstrated that when companies get into trouble with the law, evidence of good character can win them less costly punishment.

但至少他们已经证明,当公司在法律上遇到麻烦时,良好品格的证据可以为他们赢得成本较低的惩罚。

2016年考研阅读原文

四级That lets us avoid building costly plants or buying expensive power at peak usage time.

这让我们避免在高峰使用时间建造昂贵的电厂或购买昂贵的电力。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级The reason is that when carbon is priced, those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first.

原因是,当碳定价时,实施成本最低的减排将首先发生。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级To change the light source is costly because you have to change the whole fixture.

更换光源的成本很高,因为您必须更换整个灯具。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级It is becoming costly.

它正在变得昂贵。

2015年12月阅读原文

考研Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance-lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare.

他们中的许多人反而成了麻烦的诉讼申请者,这使得侵权制度成为一场代价高昂的噩梦。

2014年考研阅读原文

高考The more costly the house is, the better it sells.

房子越贵,卖得越好。

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

四级That lets us avoid building costly plants or buying expensive power at peak usage time

这让我们避免在高峰使用时间建造昂贵的电厂或购买昂贵的电力

2013年6月阅读原文

六级The major components of our energy systems, such as fuel production, refining, electrical generation and distribution, are costly installation that have lengthy life spans.

我们能源系统的主要组成部分,如燃料生产、精炼、发电和配电,都是昂贵的装置,使用寿命很长。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级Given the rising investment in college education, parental concern is not surprising, but learning where and when to intervene (干预 ) will help students take more ownership of the outcomes of these increasingly costly educations

鉴于对大学教育的投资不断增加,家长的担忧并不令人惊讶,但要学会在何时何地进行干预(干预 ) 将帮助学生更多地掌握这些日益昂贵的教育成果

2013年12月阅读原文

四级Some desalination plants exist where feasible, but they are costly to run and can need constant repairs.

一些海水淡化厂在可行的情况下存在,但运行成本高,需要经常维修。

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

高考Singing is a costly behaviour and it takes energy.

唱歌是一种昂贵的行为,它需要精力。

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级Given the rising investment in college education, parental concern is not surprising, but learning where and when to intervene (干预 ) will help students take more ownership of the outcomes of these increasingly costly educations.

鉴于对大学教育的投资不断增加,家长的担忧并不令人惊讶,但要学会在何时何地进行干预(干预 ) 将帮助学生更多地掌握这些日益昂贵的教育成果。

2013年12月阅读原文

四级They find it costly to give up their existing assets.

他们发现放弃现有资产代价高昂。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级living separately would be too costly

分开住太贵了

2012年6月阅读原文

四级Surveys show that the number of worried Americans has been steadily growing over the years as the computer becomes increasingly efficient, easier to operate, and less costly to purchase and maintain.

调查显示,随着计算机变得越来越高效、更易于操作、购买和维护成本越来越低,焦虑的美国人的数量多年来一直在稳步增长。

2013年6月听力原文

六级Efforts to accelerate the current energy transitions didn’t succeed as expected, To change the light source is costly because you have to change the whole fixture.

加速当前能源转型的努力并没有如预期的那样成功,

2015年12月大学英语六级考试真题(二)

六级It would be more costly to deal with its consequences than to avoid it.

处理其后果的代价将比避免后果的代价更高。

2016年12月六级(第一套)真题

四级“That lets us avoid building costly plants or buying expensive power at peak usage time.

“这使我们可以避免建造昂贵的工厂或在高峰使用时间购买昂贵的电力。

2013年6月大学英语四级考试真题(第1套)

四级Given the rising investment in college education,parental concern is not surprising,but learning where and when to intervene ( 干预 ) will help students take more ownership of the outcomes of these increasingly costly educations .

考虑到对大学教育的投资不断增加,家长们的担忧并不令人惊讶,但了解何时何地进行干预(干预 ) 将帮助学生更多地掌握这些日益昂贵的教育的成果。

2013年12月大学英语四级考试真题(第1套)

四级Given the rising investment in college education, parental concern is not surprising, but learning where and when to intervene (干预) will help students take more ownership of the outcomes of these increasingly costly educations.

鉴于对大学教育的投资不断增加,家长们的担忧并不令人惊讶,但要知道何时何地进行干预(干预) 将帮助学生更多地掌握这些日益昂贵的教育的成果。

2013年12月大学英语四级考试真题(第2套)

考研But many shippers complain that for heavy bulk commodities traveling long distances, such as coal, chemicals, and grain, trucking is too costly and the railroads therefore have them by the throat.

但许多托运人抱怨说,对于长途运输的重型大宗商品,如煤炭、化学品和粮食,卡车运输成本太高,因此铁路公司对它们穷追不舍。

2003年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研As a physician, I know the most costly and dramatic measures may be ineffective and painful.

作为一名医生,我知道最昂贵和最引人注目的措施可能是无效和痛苦的。

2003年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

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