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B：I really want to go to China for vacation, but I can’t find a cheap plane ticket.
      我想去中国度假，可是买不到价钱便宜的机票。

A：Have you tried the Internet?
      你上网试过了吗？

B：No, not yet. Can you find a good price there?
      不，还没有。你可以查到价钱合适的吗?

A：Wow, you really live in the Stone Age, Mom.
      哇，妈妈，你还生活在石器时代。

B：Well, you don’t have to be mean. How do I do it?
      你不要这么小气。我该怎么查找？

A：Go to yahoo.com and click on “Travel” and “Tickets.” They’ll be about a billion sites to look at.
      上雅虎网站，点击“旅游”和 “车票”。就有成千上万的网站供你查找的。

B：O.K. Thanks. I’ll let you know what I find.
      好了，谢谢。我找到了会告诉你的。

A：All right.
      好的。

B：I’ll look for a ticket for you, too. Thanks.
      我也会帮你看看票的。谢谢你。

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

B：Hey, sounds great to me, kid. What kind of job did you find?
      嘿，听起来到很不错，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。如果你想一个人住，你必须自己付房租，还有所有的一切。

A：I thought I could just get you and Dad to pay for an apartment. I found a cheap one.
      我想让你和爸爸来付房租，我就找间便宜点的。

B：When you move out, your father and I aren’t paying your rent, young man. Get a job.
      你搬走的话，年轻人，你爸爸和我是不会给你付房租的，找一个工作吧。

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A：You’re right. If I’m going to live on my own, I have to be independent.
      没错。如果要一个人住的话，我要学会独立。

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，那边有报纸。看看招聘专栏，但是我不知道没有大学文凭你可以找到什么工作。

1. 便宜的;不贵的
    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...
           要是能找到足够便宜的地方，我就不在校园里住了。
    e.g. Smoke detectors are cheap and easy to put up...
           烟雾报警器既不贵又易于安装。

2. 不值钱的;质次价低的
    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.
           别买廉价的仿冒品，攒点钱买正品吧。
    e.g. ...a tight suit made of some cheap material.
           用廉价面料做的紧身套装

3. （劳动力）廉价的
    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的反义词

    e.g. ...unscrupulous employers who treat children as a cheap source of labour.
           把儿童当廉价劳动力使用的黑心雇主

4. (言行)讨便宜的，刻薄的，不怀好意的
    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.
           这些测试必然会被政客们不失时机地拿去大做政治文章。

5. 吝啬的;小气的
    If you describe someone as cheap, you are criticizing them for being unwilling to spend money.

cheap的近义词

    e.g. Oh, please, Dad, just this once don't be cheap.
           哦，求求你，爸爸，就这一回，别抠门儿了。

6. 人命不值钱;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.
           我们最终将生活在一个视人命为儿戏的社会。

7. 便宜第一;节省地
    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.
           现在的房子大多质量差劲透顶，肯定都是偷工减料盖起来的。