名词

1. 花费;费用;开支
Expense is the money that something costs you or that you need to spend in order to do something.

2. （由雇主报销的）开支，费用，业务费用
Expenses are amounts of money that you spend while doing something in the course of your work, which will be paid back to you afterwards.

3. 由…付费
If you do something at someone's expense, they provide the money for it.

4. 拿…开玩笑;以…为嘲弄的对象
If someone laughs or makes a joke at your expense, they do it to make you seem foolish.

5. 以牺牲…的利益为代价
If you achieve something at the expense of someone, you do it in a way which might cause them some harm or disadvantage.

6. 以…为代价
If you say that someone does something at the expense of another thing, you are expressing concern at the fact that they are not doing the second thing, because the first thing uses all their resources.

7. 花（大笔）钱做
If you go to the expense of doing something, you do something which costs a lot of money. If you go to great expense to do something, you spend a lot of money in order to achieve it.

8. to spare no expense - see spare

1. a detriment or sacrifice

e.g. at the expense of

2. amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)

Synonym: disbursaldisbursement

3. money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer

e.g. he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting