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词根:costly
adj.costly 昂贵的;代价高的
The first known use of costly was in the 14th century
costume1 of 2noun
the style of clothing, ornaments, and hair characteristic of a certain period, region, or class peasant costume
ancient Roman costume
special or fancy dress (as for wear on the stage or at a masquerade party)
a person's outer clothing
costume2 of 2verb
to provide with a costume
cost1 of 2noun
the amount paid or charged for something : price
the loss or penalty involved in achieving a goal
won the battle at the cost of many lives
plural legal expenses given to the winning side against the losing side
fined $50 and costs
cost2 of 2verb
to have a price of : require payment of
each ticket costs one dollar
to cause one to pay, spend, or lose
mistakes cost him his job
costlyadjective
of great cost or value
costly furs
gained at great expense or sacrifice
a costly victory
costlyadjective
of great cost or value
costly furs
gained at great expense or sacrifice
a costly victory
1 Despite the density and costliness of Manhattan real estate, the city continues to find ways to incorporate green spaces into the urban jungle.
2 No one needs to be reminded of the escalating costliness of this approach to sharing the risk in healthcare or discordance between the costliness in the United States and elsewhere.
3 Amid the crowds and costliness of Broadway theater, there’s still thankfully room for this kind of profound communication between actors and audiences.
4 Another Redditor, who claimed to be a teacher, called the letter “ridiculous” and shared a story about how they handled the costliness of hosting classroom parties.
5 A high current-density being employed, the turn-over of gold is rapid—an essential factor of success when the costliness of the metal is taken into account.
6 We went inside this beautiful church of St. Mark’s and at first we could not realise the magnificence, the beauty, the costliness of its interior.
7 The Grand Canal, which is nearly two miles long, is lined with palaces, such as no modern capital can approach in costliness and splendor.
8 What has so often turned heads about her style is not the costliness of her clothes or the trendiness of them.
9 As we have already remarked, the secret of perfect dressing is simplicity, costliness being no essential element of real elegance.
10 They won the game, but their best player was injured, so it was a costly victory.
11 So also the second law—“Let all costliness and excessive waitings be banished from funerals.”
12 May noticed how rapidly the elegance and costliness of the furniture and appointments decreased as they mounted.
13 It was too costly to fix her car after the accident, so she decided to buy a new car instead.
14 The place had been fitted up with incredible costliness, and was kept in scrupulous order by servants consecrated especially for the work, who entered it only at stated periods when its mistress was absent.
15 But the costliness of the move also made it feel just a little more luxurious.
16 Yet this costliness was generally a condition of the acceptableness of the sacrifice.
17 But this is less an issue of costliness than it is of principle: menstrual care is health care, and should be treated as such.
18 The second variable in the costliness of the exchange posses is the size of the market, which determines whether personal or impersonal exchange occurs.
交易费用所拥有的第二项变量是市场规模,这决定了所发生的是人格化交换还是非人格化交换。
19 His dress was equally remarkable for the costliness of its material and the negligence of its arrangement; and left the point at issue, whether the costume were the more extravagant or the more slovenly.
20 The insipid chase only served to highlight the importance of Amla's earlier contribution and the costliness of Amin's drop at point when the right-hander was on only seven.