Exorbitant

(adj.) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; 'exorbitant rent'; 'extortionate prices'; 'spends an outrageous amount on entertainment'; 'usurious interest rate'; 'unconscionable spending' .

手打:露西娅

• Their remoteness and unpunctuality, or their exorbitant charges and frauds, will be drawing forth bitter lamentations. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Anticipating an easier victory than she had foreseen, she named an exorbitant sum. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Hence the exorbitant price of the necessaries of life during the blockade of a town, or in a famine. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It was a crushing and exorbitant peace, dictated with the utmost arrogance of confident victors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The exorbitant rewards of players, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The profit of those merchants would be almost equally exorbitant and oppressive. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Have the exorbitant profits of the merchants of Cadiz and Lisbon augmented the capital of Spain and Portugal? 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• These were exorbitant conditions, with which Rome should have been content. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Exorbitant desire for uniformity of procedure and for prompt external results are the chief foes which the open-minded attitude meets in school. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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