Expense

(noun.) a detriment or sacrifice; 'at the expense of'.

(noun.) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures).

(noun.) money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer; 'he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting'.

(verb.) reduce the estimated value of something; 'For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer'.

录入:皮埃尔

• This expense, however, it must be acknowledged, is more moderate in Great Britain than in most other countries. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Provisions are thereby rendered dearer, in the same manner as if it required extraordinary labour and expense to raise them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• You haven't seen my private expense book yet. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Such colonies, therefore, have been a source of expense, and not of revenue, to their respective mother countries. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Don't pay yourself at another man's expense (which is foolish), but be business-like! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Great Britain has hitherto suffered her subject and subordinate provinces to disburden themselves upon her of almost this whole expense. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But though the wear and tear of a free servant be equally at the expense of his master, it generally costs him much less than that of a slave. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The proportion of the expense of house-rent to the whole expense of living, is different in the different degrees of fortune. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Another woman was laughing or sneering at her expense, and he not angry. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In those days the principal expense of the sovereign seems to have consisted in the maintenance of his own family and household. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He gave me my watch and chain, and spared no expense in buying them; both were of superior workmanship, and very expensive. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• We are perhaps apt to emphasize the control of the body at the expense of control of the environment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• When the expense of fashionable dress is very great, the variety must be very small. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Britain, at the expense of three millions, has killed one hundred and fifty Yankees this campaign, which is 20,000_l. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The expense of a riding school is so great, that in most places it is a public institution. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• And for present expenses? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I certainly did not see the proof of Mr. Skimpole's worldliness in his having his expenses paid by Richard, but I made no remark about that. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Take 'em for expenses? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Other great and inevitable expenses too we have had on first coming to Norland. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• You may guess, after all these expenses, how very far we must be from being rich, and how acceptable Mrs. Ferrars's kindness is. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• For this express reason, I had borrowed the half-guinea, that I might not be without a fund for my travelling-expenses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He is intent upon various new expenses,--horses, and carriages, and lavish appearances of all kinds. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• And he is worth--not to say his sordid expenses--but thrice his weight in gold, said Richard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The rent of a very moderate landed estate might be fully sufficient for defraying all the other necessary expenses of government. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Such expenses are in this system called ground expenses (depenses foncieres). 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It may be very inconvenient some years to spare a hundred, or even fifty pounds from our own expenses. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Keep the expenses down. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But these I have likewise endeavoured to show, in the same book, are expenses by which people are not very apt to ruin themselves. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Tell me, at least, the expenses of the republic, for no doubt you intend to retrench the superfluous? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• I'll pay all expenses, and a fair reward into the bargain. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

校对:卢埃林