听声词典

at the expense of

A 开头单词

基本解释

  • 以…为代价；由…支付费用

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • If and when some people get ahead at the expense of others, they will eventually pay.
    如果当一些人以其他人为代价获得成功，他们最终会得到报应的。
  • This turnaround seems to have come at the expense of those who describe themselves as being without religion.
    这一转变的发生看似是以那些将自己描述为无信仰者（比例的下降）为代价的；
  • However, this comes at the expense of releasing all your personal information to parents should they (or their child) ever want to contact you.
    然而，这样做的代价就是把你的信息全都留给那些父母，他们（或他们的孩子）以后可能想要联系你.

    • 原声例句

  • Some people say lobbying supports special interests at the expense of the public interest.
  • Peter the Great expands territory beyond the Euro mountains along the Caspian Sea at the expense of the Turks.
    彼得大帝越过欧洲山脉,沿着里海扩张,吞并着土耳其的土地
    耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选
  • To write any kind of epic at all might very well seem to be embracing an inappropriately sensual paganism at the expense of the higher discipline of good, old-fashioned monotheistic Christianity.
    不论你想写好任何形式的史诗,你都要接受一些不太恰当的异教信仰,违反一些基督教中好的教条，和过时的一神论思想。
    耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

    • 权威例句

  • In those periods it was deliberately investing in the future at the expense of current profits.
    FORBES: Analytic myopia

词组短语

    短语

  • At t the expense of 以……为代价
  • at the expense of technology 减少对技术经费的投入
  • over at the expense of 以…为代价
  • at the expense of children 把儿童牺牲掉
  • At the expense of environment 不惜以牺牲环境为代价