cheaply

英 [ˈtʃiːpli] 美 [ˈtʃiːpli]

adv.  便宜地; 廉价地; 低廉地

Oxford 3000 / BNC.8583 / COCA.13400



牛津词典

adv.

  1. 便宜地;廉价地;低廉地
    without spending or costing much money
    1. I'm sure I could buy this more cheaply somewhere else.
      我相信我能在别的地方更便宜地买到这种物品。
    2. a cheaply made movie
      一部低成本电影

柯林斯词典

  1. ADJ-GRADED 便宜的;不贵的
    Goods or services that are cheap cost less money than usual or than you expected.
    1. I'm going to live off campus if I can find somewhere cheap enough...
      要是能找到足够便宜的地方,我就不在校园里住了。
    2. Smoke detectors are cheap and easy to put up...
      烟雾报警器既不贵又易于安装。
    3. Running costs are coming down because of cheaper fuel...
      燃料价格下来了,运营费用也会跟着下降。
    4. They served breakfast all day and sold it cheap.
      他们全天供应早餐,而且价钱公道。
  2. 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.
    1. Don't resort to cheap copies; save up for the real thing.
      别买廉价的仿冒品,攒点钱买正品吧。
    2. ...a tight suit made of some cheap material.
      用廉价面料做的紧身套装
  3. 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.
    1. ...unscrupulous employers who treat children as a cheap source of labour.
      把儿童当廉价劳动力使用的黑心雇主
  4. 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.
    1. These tests will inevitably be used by politicians to make cheap political points.
      这些测试必然会被政客们不失时机地拿去大做政治文章。
  5. ADJ 吝啬的;小气的
    If you describe someone as cheap, you are criticizing them for being unwilling to spend money.
    1. Oh, please, Dad, just this once don't be cheap.
      哦,求求你,爸爸,就这一回,别抠门儿了。
  6. 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.
    1. We will end up living in a society where life is cheap.
      我们最终将生活在一个视人命为儿戏的社会。
  7. 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.
    1. Most modern housing estates are terrible and inevitably done on the cheap.
      现在的房子大多质量差劲透顶,肯定都是偷工减料盖起来的。

双语例句

  1. To buy things cheaply from a poor country is to connive in its poverty.
    低价从贫穷国家采购是加重其贫穷的不义之举。
  2. You can go for a 'rostrum' system, which sounds flash, but can be assembled quite cheaply.
    可以去弄一个“指挥台”系统,它听起来很昂贵,但其实花不了多少钱就可以组装起来。
  3. Are the investment banks selling cheaply, out of necessity?
    投资银行是否完全不必要贱价出售?
  4. Competition in the market has led to goods being produced cheaply and a consequent deterioration in quality.
    市场上的竞争导致了商品的廉价生产,随之质量也下降了。
  5. But if it can be acquired cheaply and pirated, why would anybody pay you for the same service?
    但如果那一切可以廉价地获取和剽窃,凭什么还会有人向你们购买同样的服务呢?
  6. Other countries have great rivers, which turn turbines and generate electricity more easily and cheaply.
    别的国家有大河,可以驱动水轮机发电,这比较容易和廉价。
  7. One offers a new way to produce solar cells more cheaply and safely than current methods.
    其中一项研究提供了一种全新的太阳能电池生产方式,它要比现有方法更便宜,更安全。
  8. And would you be surprised to know the information may be sold cheaply to advertisers and marketers?
    如果有人告诉你这些信息被廉价出售给广告商和销售商,你是否会感到吃惊呢?
  9. Can you believe that I bought a TV set so cheaply?
    你能相信我那么便宜就买了一台电视吗?
  10. I bought these shoes cheaply because they have slight defects in them.
    这双鞋我买得很便宜,因为鞋上有些小毛病。
  11. Problem: How can we serve our customers better and more cheaply?
    问题:我们如何才能为客户提供更好、更便宜的服务?
  12. I must have been potty to sell my car so cheaply.
    我肯定是傻了,把自己的汽车卖得这么便宜。
  13. I have found the place that fruit is cheaply bought.
    我找到了廉价买水果的地方。
  14. We must use new methods so that we can do the job quickly and cheaply.
    我们必须使用新的方法,以便我们自己尽快地、低成本地做这项工作。
  15. Farmers also wanted a low tariff on imports, so that they could buy consumer goods more cheaply.
    农民还要求降低进口关税,使他们能买到廉价的消费品。
  16. I was very lucky to buy it so cheaply.
    我很幸运如此便宜地买到它。
  17. I bought this car very cheaply.
    这辆车我买得很便宜。
  18. You can't write over it once it's been written on, but you buy more very cheaply.
    一旦写了东西之后就不能再次写入了,但是如果你买得很多的话也非常便宜。
  19. Americans could live their dream by borrowing from the banks and buying cheaply from China.
    美国人靠从银行借债和购买廉价中国商品,可以过上与梦想相符的生活。
  20. They do not want to sell out too cheaply.
    他们不想过于廉价地出售这些土地。
  21. In fact, we can do many things more easily and more cheaply using the Internet.
    事实上,我们可以做很多事情变得更容易和更廉价地使用互联网。
  22. Asian investors have been attracted by the claims that they can trade more cheaply while moving the market less.
    而交易价格更低、对市场影响更小的声明,也吸引了亚洲投资者。
  23. The most important thing is that it's more convenient and can be cheaply produced, stored and transported.
    最重要的是,它能更方便,更便宜地生产,储存和运输。
  24. There are many things that consumers do not have to buy, and plenty they can buy more cheaply.
    有许多东西都不是消费者非买不可的,还有许多东西他们能以更低的价格购买。
  25. You'd be hard put to it to make it more cheaply.
    你会发现,很难比这价钱更便宜的了。
  26. I've found out where to buy them cheaply.
    我发现了在哪里买这些东西便宜。
  27. We will never more think cheaply of ourselves, or of like.
    我们决不要再低估我们自己,低估人生了。
  28. I got it cheaply as its cover was torn.
    我廉价买下了它,因为它的封皮坏了。
  29. I reckon you are luckily to have got the house so cheaply.
    我认为你很幸运能那么便宜买下那幢房子。
  30. I bought those new plates cheaply, and the pretty rose pattern has worn off already.
    这些新盘子我买得很便宜,盘上漂亮的玫瑰花纹图案已经磨掉了。

英英释义

adv

  1. with little expenditure of money
    1. I bought this car very cheaply

    Synonym:    inexpensively

  2. in a cheap manner
    1. a cheaply dressed woman approached him in the bar

    Synonym:    tattilyinexpensively

  3. in a stingy manner
    1. their rich uncle treated them rather chintzily

    Synonym:    stingilychintzily