3.to pay through the nose 高價(jià)
例如:
Life is funny. When the famous dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh was alive, nobody wanted to buy his pictures. But now rich people will pay through the nose for one, sometimes more than five million dollars。
人生實(shí)在是很有趣的。當(dāng)那位有名的荷蘭畫家凡高還活著的時(shí)候,沒(méi)有人要買他的畫。可是,現(xiàn)在那些有錢人卻愿意出高價(jià)買他的畫,有時(shí)候一張畫就要五百多萬(wàn)美元。”