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- 学费
学费
xué fèi
Meaning
- tuition fee
Definition
上学需要交纳的费用；也比喻为学习某事物付出的代价。
Tuition fee; also metaphorically refers to the price paid for learning something.
Usage
通常指学校为接受教育而收取的费用；在比喻用法中，指因缺乏经验或通过学习而付出的代价。
Usually refers to the fee charged by schools for education; in metaphorical usage, it refers to the price paid due to lack of experience or for learning.
Examples
- 1 这所大学的学费每年大约两万元。 (The tuition fee at this university is about 20,000 yuan per year.)
- 2 他因为交不起学费而辍学了。 (He dropped out of school because he couldn't afford the tuition.)
- 3 这次失败就当是交了学费，下次就知道了。 (Think of this failure as paying tuition; next time you'll know better.)
- 4 创业初期，他交了不少学费才学会如何管理公司。 (In the early days of his business, he paid a lot of tuition to learn how to manage the company.)
- 5 父母省吃俭用，只为攒够孩子的学费。 (The parents scrimped and saved just to gather enough for their child's tuition.)
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