precious/costly/dear/expensive/valuable.导航词义：贵重的，昂贵的

1. precious:adj. 贵重的.强调稀有且价值不菲的。

precious vases

稀世花瓶

There is a crown set with precious jewels in his safe.

他保险箱里有一个嵌满贵重宝石的王冠。

2. costly:adj. 昂贵的.较正式用词，指花费太多钱的，尤指超过愿意支付的价钱的。

Such a set of furniture would be extremely costly to buy.

买这么一套家具要花很多钱。

He wanted to know how to avoid costly legal proceedings.

他想知道如何避开昂贵的法律诉讼。

3. dear:adj. 昂贵的.指价格贵的，通常作表语。

Cars are dearer in Britain than in Europe.

汽车在英国比在欧洲要贵。

Everything is so dear now.

现在什么东西都这么贵。

4. expensive:adj. 昂贵的.强调花钱多、价格高的。

This apartment is too expensive for me to buy.

这套公寓太贵了，我买不起。

They went to the most expensive restaurant in town to celebrate her birthday.

他们去城里最贵的餐馆庆祝她的生日。

5. valuable:adj. 贵重的.强调十分值钱的。

His wife was wondering where he put their most valuable belongings.

他的妻子很想知道他把他们最值钱的财物放在哪里。

Two valuable paintings were stolen from that museum last night.

那个博物馆昨晚有两幅名贵的画失窃。

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1·Food was scarce and expensive.

食物匮乏而且昂贵。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Skiing gear can be expensive.

滑雪用具有时会很昂贵。《牛津词典》

3·It's a tad too expensive for me.

这对我来说稍微贵了一点儿。《牛津词典》

4·Tickets are likely to be expensive.

入场券可能很贵。《牛津词典》

5·They are very expensive, I presume?

我想这些东西很贵吧？《牛津词典》

6·The meal was ridiculously expensive.

这顿饭贵得离谱。《牛津词典》

7·That dress was an expensive mistake.

那件连衣裙看走眼买贵了。《牛津词典》

8·The other one was much too expensive.

另一个太贵了。《牛津词典》

9·I can't afford it, it's too expensive.

我买不起，太贵了。《牛津词典》

10·Meat and fish are relatively expensive.

肉和鱼相对较贵。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

昂贵

1·Food was scarce and expensive.

食物匮乏而且昂贵。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Her black suit was restrained and expensive.

她的黑色套装素净且昂贵。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·The food was not actually all that expensive.

食品居然并不那么昂贵。《牛津词典》

4·I spend a lot on expensive jewellery and clothing.

我在昂贵的首饰和衣服上开销很大。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·Smoked salmon was considered an expensive delicacy.

熏三文鱼被认为是一道昂贵的佳肴。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

贵

1·The meal was ridiculously expensive.

这顿饭贵得离谱。《牛津词典》

2·It's a tad too expensive for me.

这对我来说稍微贵了一点儿。《牛津词典》

3·They are very expensive, I presume?

我想这些东西很贵吧？《牛津词典》

4·That dress was an expensive mistake.

那件连衣裙看走眼买贵了。《牛津词典》

5·Tickets are likely to be expensive.

入场券可能很贵。《牛津词典》

贵了

1·The other one was much too expensive.

另一个太贵了。《牛津词典》

2·I can't afford it, it's too expensive.

我买不起，太贵了。《牛津词典》

3·I can't afford it—it's just too expensive for me.

我买不起，对我来说这太贵了。《牛津词典》

4·This dress is really nice. Pity it's so expensive.

这件连衣裙真不错。只可惜太贵了。《牛津词典》

5·It was too expensive, to say nothing of the time it wasted.

这太贵了，更不用说它浪费的时间了。《牛津词典》

高昂的

1·The local farmers were struggling with chemical fertilizers which were expensive and had reduced the natural minerals in the soil over the years.

当地农民正在与价格高昂的化肥作斗争，这些年来化肥减少了土壤中的天然矿物质。

2·And truth be told, this is what many earthquake experts do, rather than pay expensive premiums for earthquake insurance.

老实说，许多地震学家就是这样做的，而不是一味地付高昂的地震灾害保险金。

3·Although the cost is expensive, there is no insurmountable obstacle in the face of common interests.

尽管成本高昂，但在共同利益面前，没有不可跨越的障碍。

4·Many states are wary of losing sovereignty or undertaking expensive obligations.

许多国家担心丧失主权或者承担高昂的义务。

5·The primary effect of all these changes will be to make it more expensive to expand the balance-sheet.

所有这些变化的首要影响是使扩张资产负债表的成本变得更加高昂。

价格昂贵

1·I was rush into buying these expensive boots.

我是在匆忙中仓促决定买下这双价格昂贵的靴子的。《新英汉大辞典》

2·In France, card companies created EMV in part because the telephone monopoly was so maddeningly inefficient and expensive.

在法国，信用卡公司创建了 EMV，部分原因是电话垄断的效率低得令人抓狂，而且价格昂贵。

3·The only sound in the darkness was the whirring of an expensive camera on auto-rewind.

唯一的声音就是一部价格昂贵的照相机自动倒卷时所发出的声音。

4·In short, if there's such a thing as a true price level, it cannot be altered by expensive goods anymore than cheap imports can drive it down.

概而言之，如果存在一个真实的物价水平，则无论价格昂贵的商品还是廉价的进口都不可能给它带来必然的改变。

5·Second, he makes more readily available some common item which previously had been more difficult or more expensive to obtain for his customers, thus easing one, if only minor, aspect of their lives.

其次，他向消费者提供这种生活必需品，使他们更容易买到原本供不应求或者价格昂贵的产品，因此提高了——即使只是轻微地提高了——他们的生活质量。

花费的

1·The trip was expensive but it was worth every penny.

这次旅行花费很大，但是花的每一分钱都不冤枉。《牛津词典》

2·His journey is the most expensive one.

他的旅行花费是最多的。

3·How expensive is it to hire an agency like yours?

雇佣一家像你的那样的机构要花费多少呢？

4·Road trips can be a very expensive part of traveling (as can flying, but I’m just simply not going to attempt that with three children under five).

自驾出行是花费最多的地方（我们可以选择坐飞机，但是我不想带着三个不满五岁的孩子这样做）。

5·That would be expensive, he acknowledges, “but the cost of not tackling the rise in unemployment may well be much greater”.

他承认，那样花费很大，但用来解决除失业率攀升以外的其他问题的花费会更大。

价格不菲

1·In fact, there's a piece of software that does almost all the same things as these expensive pieces of software — the software is called WEKA (see Resources).

实际上，有一种软件可以实现那些价格不菲的软件所能实现的全部功能 — 这个软件就是 WEKA（参见 参考资料）。

2·A personal trainer can be expensive, but well worth the investment.

请一位私人教练价格不菲，但是物有所值。

3·They are ambitious and hungry for consumer goods, often of the expensive and one-off kind needed to establish a new household.

他们积极进取，对消费品有大量需求。 而且，由于需要建立新的家庭，他们常常是一次性购买那些价格不菲的商品。

4·Before the invention of printing, maps like Ptolemy's were rare and expensive because they had to be hand drawn.

印刷术发明以前，类似托勒密所制的地图很少见，而且价格不菲，因为当时的地图必须以手工绘制。

5·Such lessons are both difficult and expensive to teach.

这种课程很难教并且价格不菲。

高价的

1·Starbucks buys expensive beans and pays its growers—be they in Guatemala or Ethiopia—an average of 23% above the market price.

星巴克从危地马哥与埃塞俄比亚的种植者手中以高价购买咖啡豆，大约平均高出市价23％。

2·They discourage energy saving and they destabilize countries dependent on oil exports, making oil in the future more likely to be expensive and even more volatile.

他们挫伤了能源的节约并且破坏了依靠石油出口的国家，造成未来的石油更有可能成为高价，进而更加动荡。

3·You don't need to waste pounds on expensive gift wrap, you could use pages torn out of old magazines or catalogues and don't forget fabric.

你没要必要花高价在礼品包装缎带上，你可以从旧杂志或者目录上撕下几页纸，还有就是不要忘了用布包。

4·This is particularly common with products that would be expensive to replace, like smartphones or tablet computers.

对于智能手机和平板计算机之类的高价产品来说，这样的情形尤其普遍。

5·And you can always buy a cheap cold beer or two from a supermarket when you get tired of walking, then sit in Nyhavn alongside the tourists drinking expensive beers, or in a park.

走累了，到超市买一两罐便宜的冰啤酒，然后到尼哈文(新码头)或者公园里，和那些喝着高价啤酒的游客坐在一起喝。

不菲

1·McCarthy said it's unlikely businesses will use carbon capture and storage, because the technology is still in the early demonstration stages and it's expensive.

麦卡锡称，商业上不大可能用上碳捕集和碳封存等技术，因为这些技术还在早期的实验演示阶段，况且它们所费不菲。

2·These data are capacity bound rather than IOPS bound and flash is an expensive way to get capacity.

这些数据更关乎容量，而不是IOPS，而通过闪存获取容量的代价颇为不菲。

3·Pressure from private shareholders, in contrast, could push postal bosses to drop expensive services that carry comparatively little benefit for customers, such as next-day delivery for business.

相反，来自私人股东的压力，会迫使邮政经理放弃那些给客户带来较少利益却又价格不菲的服务，比如针对商业的次日送达业务。

4·These are expensive, but improve aerodynamics so as to reduce fuel consumption by 3-4%-no bad thing when airlines have been hammered lately by high fuel costs.

尽管价格不菲，但是这将提升空气动力进而减少3% - 4%的燃油消耗-对于被高油价弄得苦不堪言的航空公司而言也不是件坏事。

5·However, getting enough antimatter for the 26 trillion-mile, one-way trip to Alpha Centauri and storing such a volatile fuel for long periods is prohibitively expensive and difficult.

然而，要到达26万亿英里之外的半人马座阿尔法星，携带和储存足够量的反物质难度极大，这种燃料不仅状态不稳定，而且耗资不菲。

(1)less expensiveadj. 比较便宜的

(1)expensive thing昂贵的东西

(1)a bit expensive有点贵