costliest

英 [ˈkɒstlɪɪst]

美 [ˈkɔstliɪst]

adj.  花钱多的; 昂贵的; 价钱高的; 引起困难的; 造成损失的
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柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 昂贵的;价格高的
  If you say that something iscostly, you mean that it costs a lot of money, often more than you would want to pay.
  1. Having professionally made curtains can be costly, so why not make your own?
     既然找专门人员做窗帘非常贵，为什么不自己做呢?
• ADJ-GRADED 造成严重损失的;代价大的
  If you describe someone's action or mistake ascostly, you mean that it results in a serious disadvantage for them, for example the loss of a large amount of money or the loss of their reputation.
  1. Psychometric tests can save organizations from grim and costly mistakes...
     心理测试能够使组织机构避免犯下损失惨重的大错。
  2. This sort of scandal in international banking has been politically costly.
     国际银行业的这种丑闻一直以来都会造成极其恶劣的政治影响。

双语例句

• You can select the costliest query, and you can launch Optim Query Tuner directly from that view.
  您可以选择成本最低的查询，并可以从那个视图直接启动OptimQueryTuner。
• Seoul is Asia's costliest city for expatriates while the weaker yen has made Japanese cities more affordable, a survey released Monday said.
  星期一公布的一份调查显示：对于在亚洲的外国人来说，首尔已经成为物价最昂贵的亚洲城市，日本城市因为日元疲软，物价反而变得更轻易负担得起。
• Sally Yim, an analyst at Moody's in Hong Kong, said: Insurance coverage is much more widespread than it was during previous natural disasters so the insured losses will very likely be the costliest catastrophe for the insurance industry in China ever.
  穆迪（Moody's）驻香港分析师严溢敏（SallyYim）表示：在这次雪灾中，保险范围大大高于以前的一些自然灾害，因此，保险损失极有可能成为中国保险业有史以来最昂贵的灾难。
• This is the costliest war in our history.
  这是我们历史上付出代价最大的战争。
• The costliest war in history
  历史上代价最高的战争
• At 81 billion dollars, Katrina is the costliest natural disaster in American history.
  卡特里娜飓风造成了近810亿美圆的损失，是美国历史上最严重的自然灾难之一。
• Surgery and anaesthesia: These are among the most complex procedures for health systems to deliver and can be among the costliest.
  外科手术和麻醉属于卫生系统要提供的最复杂，可能也是最贵的一些程序。
• The costliest excluding rent were Oslo, London, Copenhagen, Zurich, Tokyo and Geneva.
  不包括租金在内，生活成本最高的城市有奥斯陆、伦敦、哥本哈根、苏黎世、东京和日内瓦。
• Reinsurer Munich Re reckons that, between 1980 and 2008, eight of the 10 costliest natural disasters in Asia were typhoons that hit Japan.
  慕尼黑再保险公司（MunichRe）估计，在亚洲地区1980年至2008年10次经济损失最严重的自然灾害中，有8次是日本遭受的台风袭击。
• Hong Kong has taken over from Tokyo as the world's most expensive city, according to a lifestyle survey which also reveals the gap between the costliest and cheapest cities is narrowing.
  根据一项生活方式调查，香港已经取代东京坐上了世界上最昂贵城市的交椅，该调查同时显示生活成本最昂贵城市与最低廉城市之间的差距正在缩小。