记忆方法
将“expense”分解为“ex”和“panse”，联想为“超出”空间（panse）的范围，即“超出开支”。这样可以帮助记住这个单词表示“开支”或“费用”的意思。
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词族 · expense
词形变化
中文词源
expense 花费
来自expend, 花费。
英语词源
- expense (n.)
- also formerly expence, late 14c., "action of spending or giving away, a laying out or expending," also "funds provided for expenses, expense money; damage or loss from any cause," from Anglo-French expense, Old French espense "money provided for expenses," from Late Latin expensa "disbursement, outlay, expense," noun use of neuter plural past participle of Latin expendere "to weigh out money, to pay down" (see expend).
Latin spensa also yielded Medieval Latin spe(n)sa, the sense of which specialized to "outlay for provisions," then "provisions, food" before it was borrowed into Old High German as spisa and became the root of German Speise "food," now mostly meaning prepared food, and speisen "to eat." Expense account is from 1872. - expense (v.)
- 1909, from expense (n.). Related: Expensed; expensing.
权威例句
- 1. Owen was against it, on the grounds of expense.
- 欧文因费用问题对此表示反对。
- 2. I'll try to save him the expense of a flight from Perth.
- 我会设法替他省下要从珀斯飞来的机票费用。
- 3. He put Elizabeth's motel bill and airfare on his expense account.
- 他将伊丽莎白住汽车旅馆的费用和机票费用记在他的报销账目中。
- 4. It exposes the fallacy of short-term industrial gain at long-term environmental expense.
- 这暴露了以长久的环境破坏为代价换取短期工业利益的错误。
- 5. The orchestra has more discipline now, but at the expense of spirit.
- 那个管弦乐团现在更有纪律性了，却丧失了灵魂。
词语辨析
【fee, expense, price, charge, fare, cost】
这组词都有“价格，费用”的意思，其区别是：
fee: 指上学、求医以及找律师等付的费用，还可指会费、借书费等。
expense: 常指实际支付的费用总数额，有时也指钱的花费。
price: 指商品在市场出售的价格，尤指卖方对商品所提出的单价。比喻意义指付出的代价。
charge: 指提供服务时索取的费用，也指货物的价格、价钱。
fare: 侧重指旅行时所付的车、船费等费用。
cost: 指生产某东西的成本，也泛指商品的价格，可与price换用。
这组词都有“价格，费用”的意思，其区别是：
fee: 指上学、求医以及找律师等付的费用，还可指会费、借书费等。
expense: 常指实际支付的费用总数额，有时也指钱的花费。
price: 指商品在市场出售的价格，尤指卖方对商品所提出的单价。比喻意义指付出的代价。
charge: 指提供服务时索取的费用，也指货物的价格、价钱。
fare: 侧重指旅行时所付的车、船费等费用。
cost: 指生产某东西的成本，也泛指商品的价格，可与price换用。