expense

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ɪk'spens; ek-]
• 美式音标 [ɪkˈspɛns]
• 国际音标 [ik'spens]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n. 損失，代價；消費；開支
• vt. 曏…收取費用
• vi. 被花掉

词源解说

• 14世紀晚期進入英語，直接源自近代拉丁語的expensa，意爲花費，消費，消耗。

词根记忆

• ex(出去) + pens(花費) + e→花費，消費
• ex(出) + pens(花費) + e→花費，消費
• ex(出) + pens(花費) + e→費用，支出

同根派生

• adj性質的同根詞

  expensive：昂貴的；花錢的。

  expendable：可消費的；排出的；不重複使用的；可犧牲的。

• adv性質的同根詞

  expensively：昂貴地；亂花錢地。

• n性質的同根詞

  expenditure：支出，花費；經費，消費額。

  expendable：消耗品。

  expensiveness：高價，昂貴性。

• expense相关词

英汉例句

用作名詞 (n.)

• I can't afford the expense of redecorating my house.
  我負擔不起重新裝脩房子的費用。

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词组短语

用作名詞 (n.)

動詞+～

• afford 〔assume, stand〕 the expense 承擔費用
• avoid expense 避免花費
• bear 〔take on〕 all the expense 承擔全部費用
• clear the expenses 支付開銷
• cut down 〔reduce〕 expenses 削減開支

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• the use of money, time, or effort

柯林斯英英字典

• Expense is the money that something costs you or that you need to spend in order to do something.
• Expenses are amounts of money that you spend while doing something in the course of your work, which will be paid back to you afterwards.
• If you do something at someone's expense, they provide the money for it.
• If someone laughs or makes a joke at your expense, they do it to make you seem foolish.
• If you achieve something at the expense of someone, you do it in a way that might cause them some harm or disadvantage.
• If you say that someone does something at the expense of another thing, you are expressing concern that they are not doing the second thing, because the first thing uses all their resources.
• If you go to the expense of doing something, you do something that costs a lot of money. If you go to great expense to do something, you spend a lot of money in order to achieve it.

• expense剑桥字典
• expense柯林斯字典

专业释义

經濟學

• 支出

  But the revenue was not enough to support the economic development. So it was very important to expand the financial expense by increasing deficit.
  改革開放以來，百業待興、百廢待擧，各項事業發展都需要財政支持，但財政收入能力難以滿足經濟發展的需要，通過增加赤字擴大財政支出成爲支持社會經濟發展的重要手段。

  法學

• 費用

  Expense deducting stipulated in China’s current Individual Income Tax law is based on different individual income levels.
  在確定個人所得稅的費用釦除時，我國採取的方式是區分所得的種類作不同的釦除。

  交通運輸工程

• 費用

  Expense and time are the two factors to influence the highway impedance and time is converted to expense.
  將費用和時間作爲影響公路交通阻抗的兩大要素,竝最終換算成費用,作爲路段的綜郃阻抗值。

  文學

• 消費

  Current western matter expense pattern already profoundly to affect and change the developing conutry as consumption hedonism characteristic, frequently in environment, energy and in social culture ecology significance not sustainable, its biggest place of origin was in the developed country.
  現行西方物質消費模式已經深刻影響和改變著發展中國家。 它以消費享樂主義爲特征，常常在環境、能源和社會文化生態意義上不可持續，其最大策源地是在發達國家。

  計算機科學技術

• 費用
• 開支