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- (of an item for sale) low in price, especially in comparison with its value or with the usual price of similar items（商品）便宜的：
they bought some cheap fruit in the market
他们在市场里买了些便宜水果
local buses were reliable and cheap.
乘本地公共汽车又可靠又便宜。
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- charging low prices收费便宜的：
a cheap restaurant.
一家收费便宜的餐馆。
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- (of prices or other charges) low（价格等）低廉的：
my rent was pretty cheap.
我的租金相当低。
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- inexpensive because of inferior quality（因劣质而）廉价的：
cheap, shoddy goods.
廉价的劣质货品。
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- of little worth because achieved in a discreditable way requiring little effort无价值的, 用不正当手段得到的：
her moment of cheap triumph.
她取得廉价胜利的那一刻。
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- deserving contempt可鄙的; 可耻的：
a cheap trick.
可鄙的诡计。
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- N. Amer. informal miserly〈北美, 非正式〉吝啬的：
she's too cheap to send me a postcard.
她太吝啬了, 不会给我寄明信片的。
- at or for a low price便宜地：
a house that was going cheap because of the war.
因战乱而房价走低的房子。
短语
cheap and cheerful
- Brit. simple and inexpensive but not unattractive〈英〉价廉物美的。
cheap and nasty
- Brit. low cost and bad quality〈英〉便宜但劣质的。
cheap at the price
- well worth having, regardless of the cost物超所值的：
as an investment for the future, the books are cheap at the price.
作为对未来的投资, 这些书物超所值。
on the cheap
- informal at a low cost, typically lower than should be the case〈非正式〉便宜地。
派生词
cheapish
adjectivecheaply
adverbcheapness
noun词源
late 15th cent.: from an obsolete phrase good cheap 'a good bargain'， from Old English cēap 'bargaining， trade'， based on Latin caupo 'small trader， innkeeper'.