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ADJ-GRADED
便宜的;不貴的
Goods or services that are cheap cost less money than usual or than you expected.
例句
I'm going to live off campus if I can find somewhere cheap enough...
要是能找到足夠便宜的地方，我就不在校園里住了。
Smoke detectors are cheap and easy to put up...
煙霧報警器既不貴又易于安裝。
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ADJ
不值錢的;質(zhì)次價低的
If you describe goods as cheap, you mean they cost less money than similar products but their quality is poor.
例句
Don't resort to cheap copies; save up for the real thing.
別買廉價的仿冒品，攢點錢買正品吧。
...a tight suit made of some cheap material.
用廉價面料做的緊身套裝
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ADJ
（勞動力）廉價的
If you describe the cost of someone's work as cheap, you disapprove of the way people are taking advantage of a situation to pay someone less than they should for the work that they do.
例句
...unscrupulous employers who treat children as a cheap source of labour.
把兒童當廉價勞動力使用的黑心雇主
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ADJ
(言行)討便宜的，刻薄的，不懷好意的
If you describe someone's remarks or actions as cheap, you mean that they are unkindly or insincerely using a situation to benefit themselves or to harm someone else.
例句
These tests will inevitably be used by politicians to make cheap political points.
這些測試必然會被政客們不失時機地拿去大做政治文章。
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ADJ
吝嗇的;小氣的
If you describe someone as cheap, you are criticizing them for being unwilling to spend money.
例句
Oh, please, Dad, just this once don't be cheap.
哦，求求你，爸爸，就這一回，別摳門兒了。
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PHRASE
人命不值錢;人命如草芥
You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
例句
We will end up living in a society where life is cheap.
我們最終將生活在一個視人命為兒戲的社會。
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PHRASE
便宜第一;節(jié)省地
If someone does or buys something on the cheap, they spend less money than they should because they are more concerned with what it costs than with its quality.
例句
Most modern housing estates are terrible and inevitably done on the cheap.
現(xiàn)在的房子大多質(zhì)量差勁透頂，肯定都是偷工減料蓋起來的。