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. 损失，代价；消费；开支
• vt. 向…收取费用
• vi. 被花掉

词源解说

• 14世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自近代拉丁语的expensa，意为花费，消费，消耗。

词根记忆

• ex(出去) + pens(花费) + e→花费，消费
• ex(出) + pens(花费) + e→花费，消费
• ex(出) + pens(花费) + e→费用，支出

同根派生

• adj性质的同根词

  expensive：昂贵的；花钱的。

  expendable：可消费的；排出的；不重复使用的；可牺牲的。

• adv性质的同根词

  expensively：昂贵地；乱花钱地。

• n性质的同根词

  expenditure：支出，花费；经费，消费额。

  expendable：消耗品。

  expensiveness：高价，昂贵性。

• expense相关词

英汉例句

用作名词 (n.)

• I can't afford the expense of redecorating my house.
  我负担不起重新装修房子的费用。

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词组短语

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• afford 〔assume, stand〕 the expense 承担费用
• avoid expense 避免花费
• bear 〔take on〕 all the expense 承担全部费用
• clear the expenses 支付开销
• cut down 〔reduce〕 expenses 削减开支

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• 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

经济学

• 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.
  改革开放以来，百业待兴、百废待举，各项事业发展都需要财政支持，但财政收入能力难以满足经济发展的需要，通过增加赤字扩大财政支出成为支持社会经济发展的重要手段。

  法学

• 费用

  Expense deducting stipulated in China’s current Individual Income Tax law is based on different individual income levels.
  在确定个人所得税的费用扣除时，我国采取的方式是区分所得的种类作不同的扣除。

  交通运输工程

• 费用

  Expense and time are the two factors to influence the highway impedance and time is converted to expense.
  将费用和时间作为影响公路交通阻抗的两大要素,并最终换算成费用,作为路段的综合阻抗值。

  文学

• 消费

  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.
  现行西方物质消费模式已经深刻影响和改变着发展中国家。 它以消费享乐主义为特征，常常在环境、能源和社会文化生态意义上不可持续，其最大策源地是在发达国家。

  计算机科学技术

• 费用
• 开支