3ADJ [ADJ n](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. (劳动力)廉价的 [disapproval]
...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
4ADJ [ADJ n](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. (言行)讨便宜的,刻薄的,不怀好意的 [disapproval]
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。
5ADJ [usually verb-link ADJ]吝啬的;小气的 If you describe someone as cheap, you are criticizing them for being unwilling to spend money. 吝啬的;小气的 [US, disapproval]
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。
6PHRASE [VERB inflects]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. 人命不值钱;人命如草芥
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。
7PHRASE 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. 便宜第一;节省地 [informal, disapproval]
Most modern housing estates are terrible and inevitably done on the cheap.