at the expense of

介词 prep.
中文释义

英文释义

介词 prep.
  1. Paid for by an individual or group.
  2. At one's responsibility. broadly,idiomatic
  3. In a way as to harm somebody or something; to the detriment of. figuratively
    — Bengali, like other Aryan languages of India, has spread, and is still spreading, at the expense of the aboriginal tongues.
  4. Of a joke, deriding someone. figuratively

词形变化

at one's expense alternative
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