For low-income families, children’s safety equipment can be prohibitively expensive (= so expensive that most people cannot afford it ).
对于低收入家庭来说,儿童的安全设备贵得让人望而却步。
Employing the wrong builder can be a horribly expensive mistake.
用错建筑工人有时会是代价高昂的错误。
Her husband had expensive tastes (= liked expensive things ).
她丈夫喜欢的东西都很贵。
adv. expensively
n. expense、 expensiveness
vi. expense
vt. expense