cheap

      英 [t?i?p] 美[t?ip]
      • adj. 便宜的;小氣的;不值錢的
      • adv. 便宜地

      CET6TEM4考研CET4中高頻詞基本詞匯

      詞態變化


      比較級:?cheaper;最高級:?cheapest;名詞:?cheapness;

      中文詞源


      cheap 便宜的

      來自拉丁詞caupo, 小商人,叫賣者,后來詞義貶義化。其原詞義見Copenhagen, chapman.

      英文詞源


      cheap
      cheap: [16] The adjectival use of cheap in English is quite recent, but the word itself goes back a long way. Its ultimate source is the Latin noun caupō ‘tradesman’, which was borrowed into Germanic in prehistoric times. Among its descendants were German kaufen ‘buy’, Old English cēapian ‘trade’ (the possible source of chop, as in ‘chop and change’), and the Old English noun cēap ‘trade’.

      In Middle English times this came to be used in such phrases as good chepe, meaning ‘good bargain’, and by the 16th century an adjectival sense ‘inexpensive’ had developed. The original sense ‘trade’ is preserved in the personal name Chapman, which until the 19th century was an ordinary noun meaning ‘trader’ (it is the source of chap ‘fellow’).

      => chap, chop
      cheap (adj.)
      "low in price, that may be bought at small cost," c. 1500, ultimately from Old English noun ceap "traffic, a purchase," from ceapian (v.) "trade," probably from an early Germanic borrowing from Latin caupo "petty tradesman, huckster" (see chapman).

      The sense evolution is from the noun meaning "a barter, a purchase" to "a purchase as rated by the buyer," hence adjectival meaning "inexpensive," the main modern sense, via Middle English phrases such as god chep "favorable bargain" (12c., a translation of French a bon marché).

      Sense of "lightly esteemed, common" is from 1590s (compare similar evolution of Latin vilis). The meaning "low in price" was represented in Old English by undeor, literally "un-dear" (but deop ceap, literally "deep cheap," meant "high price").

      The word also was used in Old English for "market" (as in ceapd?g "market day"), a sense surviving in place names Cheapside, East Cheap, etc. Related: Cheaply. Expression on the cheap is first attested 1888. Cheap shot originally was U.S. football jargon for a head-on tackle; extended sense "unfair hit" in politics, etc. is by 1970. German billig "cheap" is from Middle Low German billik, originally "fair, just," with a sense evolution via billiger preis "fair price," etc.

      雙語例句


      1. We will end up living in a society where life is cheap.
      我們最終將生活在一個視人命為兒戲的社會。

      來自柯林斯例句

      2. Calls cost 36p (cheap rate) and 48p (peak rate) per minute.
      電話每分鐘36便士(優惠費率)和48便士(高峰費率)。

      來自柯林斯例句

      3. Cheap goods are available, but not in sufficient quantities to satisfy demand.
      有一些廉價的商品,但是數量不足以滿足需求。

      來自柯林斯例句

      4. A cheap table can be transformed by an interesting cover.
      一塊趣味盎然的桌布就能使一張廉價桌子面目一新。

      來自柯林斯例句

      5. Some of the finer type-faces are corrupted by cheap, popular computer printers.
      有些比較優美的字體經過價廉、通用的電腦打印機處理后就面目全非了。

      來自柯林斯例句

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