big-ticket

英 [ˈbɪɡ tɪkɪt]

美 [ˈbɪɡ tɪkɪt]

adj.  高价的

牛津词典

adj.

• 高价的
  costing a lot of money
  1. big-ticket items
     高价项目

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 高价的；昂贵的
  If you describe something as abig-ticketitem, you mean that it costs a lot of money.
  1. Supercomputers are big-ticket items.
     超级计算机价格昂贵。

双语例句

• The findings suggest that the supply glut that has sent prices tumbling this year could soon vanish as the oil majors delay big-ticket production projects, the lifeblood of future fuel supplies.
  这些研究结果意味着，随着大型石油公司推迟重大石油生产项目&未来燃料供应的生命线，导致今年油价大幅下跌的供应过剩可能很快消失。
• To buy some clothes and big-ticket items, you can go to the mall or factory outlets.
  要买衣服和大件物品，你去购物中心或者厂家直销处。
• We just can't afford the big-ticket items right now.
  现在我们还买不起昂贵的物品。
• The company had previously looked at more than one big deal, he said, but would not be hurried on making any big-ticket purchases: Deliberate, thoughtful is our mantra.
  他表示，该公司曾研究了不止一笔大规模交易，但并不急于进行任何巨额收购：再三斟酌是我们的格言。
• Austerity leads to less spending on big-ticket items such as appliances, furniture and holidays.
  紧缩导致家用电器、家具和度假等大额项目的支出减少。
• In a worrying sign, Russians have been buying up big-ticket items as the ruble depreciates, converting savings into consumer goods lest their savings become worthless.
  有一个令人担忧的信号，随着卢布贬值，俄罗斯人已经在抢购耐用商品，把积蓄转化为消费品，以免存款变得一文不值。
• Declines were steepest for big-ticket items such as cars, down 27 per cent, and machinery, down 28 per cent, suggesting the debt crisis continues to weigh heavily on consumer and manufacturer sentiment.
  昂贵产品的出口下降最为显著，比如汽车下降27%，机械下降28%，表明债务危机继续给消费者和制造商情绪带来沉重压力。
• Car sales plummeted in Spain and fell in France last month in a further sign that European consumers are putting off purchases of big-ticket goods.
  上个月，西班牙汽车销售量出现暴跌，法国汽车销售量也出现下降，这进一步表明，欧洲消费者正推迟购买大件商品。
• Missile defence is just one of the big-ticket military items Japan must pay for.
  导弹防御系统只是日本必须支付的大型军事项目之一。
• In my life it's not so much the big-ticket items like the current influenza or the economic meltdown that make me anxious, it's the fact that I tend to over-commit myself.
  在我的生活中，诸如流感或经济危机等大事件并不会使我特别焦虑。事实上，我的焦虑情绪更多地来源于对自我的苛求；