ADJ-GRADED 便宜的;不贵的 Goods or services that are cheap cost less money than usual or than you expected.
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。
Smoke detectors are cheap and easy to put up... 烟雾报警器既不贵又易于安装。
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。
They served breakfast all day and sold it cheap. 他们全天供应早餐,而且价钱公道。
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.
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。
...a tight suit made of some cheap material. 用廉价面料做的紧身套装
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.
...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
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.
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。
ADJ 吝啬的;小气的 If you describe someone as cheap, you are criticizing them for being unwilling to spend money.
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。
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.
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。
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.
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。