cheap

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a. 便宜的, 不值钱的, 可鄙的 adv. 便宜地

发音

UK /ˈt͡ʃiːp/

词形变化

cheaps 复数 cheaps cheaped cheaping cheaps 三单 cheaping 现在分词 cheaped 过去式 cheaped 过去分词 cheaper 比较级 cheaper cheapest cheapest 最高级 more cheap 比较级 most cheap 最高级

别名

chap chop ch3ap

教材释义与例句

形容词

便宜的；小气的；不值钱的

not at all expensive, or lower in price than you expected

副词

便宜地

at a low price

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A low price; a bargain.

    可数 废旧 不可数
  2. 2.

    Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.

    可数 废旧 不可数
  3. 3.

    Price.

    可数 废旧 不可数
  4. 4.

    Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.

    可数 废旧 不可数
  5. 5.

    A market; marketplace.

    可数 废旧 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.

    不及物 废旧
  2. 2.

    To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.

    废旧 及物
  3. 3.

    To buy; purchase.

    废旧 及物
  4. 4.

    To sell.

    废旧 及物
adj. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Low or reduced in price.

    便宜

    贱

    平

    俗

    𠼢

  2. 2.

    Of poor quality.

    低级的

    渣

    鲊

  3. 3.

    Of little worth.

    价廉的

  4. 4.

    Underhanded or unfair.

    卑鄙

    俚语

    the cheap trick of hiding deadly lava under pushable blocks

  5. 5.

    Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.

    商务 金融

    The ETF is trading cheap to NAV right now; we can arb this by buying the ETF and selling the underlying constituents.

  6. 6.

    Taking little of system time or resources.

    计算机 工程 数学

    the algorithm is cheap to compute

  7. 7.

    Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.

    贬义 非正式

    Insurance is expensive, but don't be so cheap that you risk losing your home because of a fire.

adv. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Cheaply.

    废旧

    I bought this cheap in a junk shop.

    The pet shop has some budgerigars going cheap.

    March 24 1658, John Milton, letter to Emeric Bigot I need not request you to purchase them as cheap as possible

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 10

loud flash punk bum cheesy tacky crummy sleazy flashy trashy

反义词 1

expensive

近义相关 10

inferior stingy affordable tasteless low-budget cut-price cut-rate dirt cheap low-cost low-priced

相关短语

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词源

As a noun, from Middle English chep, from Old English cēap (“trade, market, value”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaup. As a verb, from Middle English chepen, from Old English ċēapian (“to buy, bargain, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaupōn, from Proto-Germanic *kaupōną, a verbal derivative of *kaupô (“trader”), from Latin caupō. The adjective originated as a shortening of Middle and Early Modern English good cheap, literally “good purchase” (as in “that was good cheap”, i.e. “that was [a] good purchase”). Compare Dutch goedkoop, French bon marché. Cognates Cognate with Scots chepe (“to sell”), chape (“sale price”), North Frisian keap (“purchase”), West Frisian keap (“purchase, buy, acquisition”), Dutch koop (“buy, purchase, deal”), kopen (“to buy, purchase, shop”), Low German kopen (“to buy”), German Kauf (“trade, traffic, bargain, purchase, buy”), kaufen (“to buy”), Swedish köp (“bargain, purchase”), köpa (“to buy, purchase”), Norwegian Nynorsk kjøpa (“to buy, purchase”), Icelandic kaup (“purchase, bargain”), kaupa (“to purchase”); also borrowed as Finnish kauppa (“shop, trade”), Russian купить (kupitʹ, “to purchase”), Old Church Slavonic коупити (kupiti, “to purchase”), Bulgarian ку́пя (kúpja, “to purchase”), Serbo-Croatian купити (“to purchase”), Czech koupit (“to purchase”), Polish kupić (“to purchase”).

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