基本释义:
adj. 豪华的;时兴而昂贵的
tony的比较级
英 [ˈtəʊnɪə] 美 [ˈtoʊnɪər]
权威例句 实用例句
1. In London's tonier neighborhoods like Kensington and Chelsea, about half of all households are people living alone.
在伦敦肯辛顿和切尔西这样的“贵族”区,大约有一半的房子里住着独自生活的人。
1. General Growth's overhead costs are 3.6% of revenue, compared with tonier operations like Rouse, at 4.8%.
FORBES: Good Neighbors
2. Why do the pages of our tonier magazines brim with mournful titles like "The Case for Settling" and "The End of Men"?
WSJ: Has the Sexual Revolution Been Good for Women? Mary Eberstadt: No
3. Result: the tonier sections of town have become even tonier.
FORBES: America's Most Affluent Neighborhoods
4. It says much about Los Angeles and the lack of cohesion of its elite that Mr Chandler could virtually disappear into the African bush on a quest to reduce the world's population of wild animals, and not be missed in the tonier precincts of Hancock Park or San Marino the gilded ghettos of sunny southern California.
ECONOMIST: American press