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B：I really want to go to China for vacation, but I can’t find a cheap plane ticket.
      我想去中國度假，可是買不到價(jià)錢便宜的機(jī)票。

A：Have you tried the Internet?
      你上網(wǎng)試過了嗎？

B：No, not yet. Can you find a good price there?
      不，還沒有。你可以查到價(jià)錢合適的嗎?

A：Wow, you really live in the Stone Age, Mom.
      哇，媽媽，你還生活在石器時(shí)代。

B：Well, you don’t have to be mean. How do I do it?
      你不要這么小氣。我該怎么查找？

A：Go to yahoo.com and click on “Travel” and “Tickets.” They’ll be about a billion sites to look at.
      上雅虎網(wǎng)站，點(diǎn)擊“旅游”和 “車票”。就有成千上萬的網(wǎng)站供你查找的。

B：O.K. Thanks. I’ll let you know what I find.
      好了，謝謝。我找到了會(huì)告訴你的。

A：All right.
      好的。

B：I’ll look for a ticket for you, too. Thanks.
      我也會(huì)幫你看看票的。謝謝你。

A：Mom, I want to move out.
      媽媽，我想搬出去住。

B：Hey, sounds great to me, kid. What kind of job did you find?
      嘿，聽起來到很不錯(cuò)，孩子，你找到了什么工作？

A：Job?
      什么工作？

B：Yes, job. If you’re going to live on your own, you have to pay for rent and everything else.
      是呀，工作。如果你想一個(gè)人住，你必須自己付房租，還有所有的一切。

A：I thought I could just get you and Dad to pay for an apartment. I found a cheap one.
      我想讓你和爸爸來付房租，我就找間便宜點(diǎn)的。

B：When you move out, your father and I aren’t paying your rent, young man. Get a job.
      你搬走的話，年輕人，你爸爸和我是不會(huì)給你付房租的，找一個(gè)工作吧。

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A：You’re right. If I’m going to live on my own, I have to be independent.
      沒錯(cuò)。如果要一個(gè)人住的話，我要學(xué)會(huì)獨(dú)立。

B：Well, the newspaper is over there. Look in the want ads, but I don’t know what you’re going to find without a college degree.
      哦，那邊有報(bào)紙?？纯凑衅笇?，但是我不知道沒有大學(xué)文憑你可以找到什么工作。

1. 便宜的;不貴的
    Goods or services that are cheap cost less money than usual or than you expected.

    e.g. 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。
    e.g. Smoke detectors are cheap and easy to put up...
           煙霧報(bào)警器既不貴又易于安裝。

2. 不值錢的;質(zhì)次價(jià)低的
    If you describe goods as cheap, you mean they cost less money than similar products but their quality is poor.

cheap什么意思

    e.g. Don't resort to cheap copies; save up for the real thing.
           別買廉價(jià)的仿冒品，攢點(diǎn)錢買正品吧。
    e.g. ...a tight suit made of some cheap material.
           用廉價(jià)面料做的緊身套裝

3. （勞動(dòng)力）廉價(jià)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.

cheap的反義詞

    e.g. ...unscrupulous employers who treat children as a cheap source of labour.
           把兒童當(dāng)廉價(jià)勞動(dòng)力使用的黑心雇主

4. (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.

    e.g. These tests will inevitably be used by politicians to make cheap political points.
           這些測(cè)試必然會(huì)被政客們不失時(shí)機(jī)地拿去大做政治文章。

5. 吝嗇的;小氣的
    If you describe someone as cheap, you are criticizing them for being unwilling to spend money.

cheap的近義詞

    e.g. 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。

6. 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.

    e.g. We will end up living in a society where life is cheap.
           我們最終將生活在一個(gè)視人命為兒戲的社會(huì)。

7. 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.

    e.g. 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。