cheap
要点値段が安い、安っぽい
意味
- 値段が安い,料金が安い,安く売る
- 安っぽい,安物の,質の悪い,価値のない
- 下品な,野卑な
- 簡単に手に入る
- 《おもに米》(人が)けちな,けちくさい(stingy)
- 安く
- 安っぽく
例文
I've never seen instant ramen this cheap before.
こんな安い袋ラーメン、初めて見た。
This ring is expensive. Show me some cheap ones.
この指輪は高い。もっと安いのを見せてください。
The food wasn't good, but at least it was cheap.
食べ物はよくなかったが、少なくとも値段が安かった。
語源
古英語ceap「取り引き」から。good cheap「よい買い物」が縮まり、得な値段「安い」。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
As a noun, from Middle English chep, from Old English cēap (“trade, market, value”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaup. As a verb, from Middle English chepen, from Old English ċēapian (“to buy, bargain, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaupōn, from Proto-Germanic *kaupōną, a verbal derivative of *kaupô (“trader”), from Latin caupō. The adjective originated as a shortening of Middle and Early Modern English good cheap, literally “good purchase” (as in “that was good cheap”, i.e. “that was [a] good purchase”). Compare Dutch goedkoop, French bon marché.