sky-high的意思|sky-high的解释-里氏词典

sky-high

ad. 极高, 粉碎

a. 极高的, 昂贵的

sky-high

[ adv ]

(with verb `to blow') destroyed completely; blown apart or to pieces

<adv.all>

they blew the bridge sky-high

the committee blew the thesis sky-high

in a lavish or enthusiastic manner

<adv.all>

he extolled her virtues sky-high

to a very high level

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prices have gone sky-high

garbage was piled sky-high

the men were flung sky-high by the explosion

Sky-high \Sky"-high`\, adv. & a.
Very high. [Colloq.]

The country is burdened by a mammoth budget deficit, sky-high inflation, competition from its Common Market neighbors and a legacy of financial scandals left behind by the government of former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou.
That's because globe-trotting Japanese suffer from one of Japan Inc.'s greatest rip-offs: sky-high air fares.
The recession, an ailing banking industry and the repeal of most state usury laws have forced a growing number of borrowers to turn for credit to companies charging sky-high interest and fees.
In the U.S., consumer demand for orange juice is picking up, but it hasn't fully recovered from last year's sky-high prices.
Investors borrow funds on the strength of real-estate collateral to buy stocks, and the shares of companies with potentially valuable real estate are pushed sky-high by stock speculators who ignore the companies' business prospects.
By May, frenzied bidding for prime targets like Federated Department Stores produced such sky-high prices that some prospective buyers began to turn their backs on acquisitions.
Non-presidents, however, occasionally recoil at the sky-high prices in Rodeo shops.
More radical surgery may be needed if US investors are to help fund a future rights issue at anything like the current price - especially when one notes that US carmakers sell at almost a third the rating of sky-high Daimler.
And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all sky-high again.
Investors who typically have ignored sky-high price-earnings ratios in the Tokyo market have started looking to fundamentals and corporate earnings to support their still-feverish buying.
Even the sky-high Japanese stock market seems not to be immune.
Wouldn't the sky-high interest rates prevent that? Faith was abandoned.
Just a few months ago, Britain's economic "disease" of rampant inflation, sky-high interest rates and persistent unemployment was pronounced cured y just about everyone except the Conservative government's staunchest critics.
The area offers better living conditions at a lower cost than Tokyo, which suffers from sky-high prices and overcrowding.
Regulators said the telephone marketers promised investors sky-high profits as the result of oil price-jumps they predicted would result from the Iraq war.
I wouldn't be surprised if one day this thing blew sky-high." Friday's demonstration was the third time this month that members of the group have been arrested in the Atlanta area and the second time the Northside Clinic has been targeted.
Eight years ago, aged 25, he took a gamble on an old ship and made a fortune plying European ports on sky-high freight rates in the wake of the British miners' strike.
The board's annual survey of college costs, released Friday, noted that only a few private colleges charge sky-high fees, and over half the nation's students are sharing $24 billion in aid.
Brazil and Argentina also are plagued by economic and social instability, with sky-high inflation rates and tens of thousands of workers striking daily for better pay, paralyzing many basic services such as transportation and the mail.
Many Japanese who grew up with long work weeks, cramped houses and sky-high prices are bent on raising their standard of living.
He says the wheat talks neglect the realities of world trade. 'If they knock out Canadian wheat, domestic durum prices would go sky-high, while the Canadian wheat would just be sold to Italy and Algeria, and become cheap pasta imports.
Businesses are producing at peak levels, but sales are not so frantic that demand is outstripping supply and driving prices sky-high.

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