高価に
解説 Definition
高い費用で、贅沢にという副詞。高い価格で何かを行うことを示す。
Expensively means in a way that costs a lot of money or appears to have a high price. It can describe how something is bought, made, decorated, or presented. It often suggests luxury, quality, or waste, depending on the context.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
まず expensive「高価な」が見えれば十分で、-ly が付いて「高価に／お金をかけて」という副詞になると押さえる。cheap → cheaply の反対側に置くと覚えやすい。expensive は物の値段、expensively は「買う・飾る・作る」など行為のしかたを修飾し、be expensively decorated, buy something expensively のように使う。costly と近いが、日常ではまず expensive / expensively を軸にすると整理しやすい。
If you know `expensive`, this is easy: `-ly` turns it into an adverb. Put it next to the simple pair `cheap` and `cheaply`. `Expensively` often describes how something is bought, made, or decorated, so think of phrases like `expensively decorated`.
例文
The hotel was expensively furnished with luxury items.
ホテルは高級品でぜいたくに調度が整えられていた。
She dressed expensively for the formal event.
彼女はフォーマルなイベントに高価な服を着ていった。
The company had its office space expensively renovated.
その企業は多額の費用をかけてオフィススペースを改装した。
expensively の類義語・関連語
expensively の語源・成り立ち Etymology
expensivelyは expense＋-ive＋-ly で、『費用がかかるように』が直訳です。expense は古フランス語経由でラテン語 expendere「金を量って支払う」へさかのぼり、ex-「外へ」＋ pendere「量る」。expend や spend と同根で、『多く払う感じ』から『高価に』になります。
Expensively is built from expensive plus the adverb ending -ly. Expensive comes from expense, which came through Old French from Latin expendere, meaning "to weigh out money, pay," from ex- "out" and pendere "to weigh." The idea moved from paying money out to something costing a lot; related words include expend, spend, and pension.
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