cost是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 成本， 费用v. 花费，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I help to support the establishments I have mentioned they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there.'
-- The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A face habitually suppressed and quieted, was still lighted up under the quaint wig by a pair of moist bright eyes that it must have cost their owner, in years gone by, some pains to drill to the composed and reserved expression of Tellson's Bank.
-- It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For this they have covered you over they never do the like to me; for I cost more.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although her dress, her coiffure, and all the preparations for the ball had cost Kitty great trouble and consideration, at this moment she walked into the ballroom in her elaborate tulle dress over a pink slip as easily and simply as though all the rosettes and lace, all the minute details of her attire, had not cost her or her family a moment's attention, as though she had been born in that tulle and lace, with her hair done up high on her head, and a rose and two leaves on the top of it.
-- They asked my husband and me to dinner, and told us the sauce at that dinner cost a hundred pounds," Princess Myakaya said, speaking loudly, and conscious everyone was listening; "and very nasty sauce it was, some green mess.
-- She recalled the efforts she had made at first to overcome the repugnance she felt for him, as for all consumptive people, and the pains it had cost her to think of things to say to him.
-- The old man, holding himself erect, moved in front, with his feet turned out, taking long, regular strides, and with a precise and regular action which seemed to cost him no more effort than swinging one's arms in walking, as though it were in play, he laid down the high, even row of grass.
-- One dress, Tanya's, which the English governess had undertaken, cost Darya Alexandrovna much loss of temper.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he breakfasted or dined all the resources of the club its kitchens and pantries, its buttery and dairy aided to crowd his table with their most succulent stores; he was served by the gravest waiters, in dress coats, and shoes with swan-skin soles, who proffered the viands in special porcelain, and on the finest linen; club decanters, of a lost mould, contained his sherry, his port, and his cinnamon-spiced claret; while his beverages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes.
-- IN WHICH A CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE WHICH SEEMS LIKELY TO COST PHILEAS FOGG DEARPhileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club, an imposing edifice in Pall Mall, which could not have cost less than three millions.
-- Impossible!The cost of transporting him would make him ruinously expensive.
-- I have failed at Bombay, and I have failed at Calcutta; if I fail at Hong Kong, my reputation is lost: Cost what it may, I must succeed!But how shall I prevent his departure, if that should turn out to be my last resource?"
-- "He's a spy sent to keep us in view!That isn't quite the thing, either, to be spying Mr. Fogg, who is so honourable a man!Ah, gentlemen of the Reform, this shall cost you dear!"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This treasure cost six cents a bottle to make and a dollar over the counter, and the name of Dawson Hunziker was never connected with it.
-- Mrs. Coughlin and Mrs. Tromp bewailed the cost of laundry soap and butter, and exchanged recipes for pickled peaches, while the men, sitting on the edge of the porch, their knees crossed, eloquently waving their cigars, gave themselves up to the ecstasy of shop-talk: "Say, Doctor, how do you find collections?"
-- Don't suppose they cost more than three thousand a year," he meditated.
-- And, "Oh, maybe it didn't cost something to furnish this dining- room, oh, not a-tall!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But we have calculated it all, Dounia and I, to the last penny, and we see that the journey will not cost very much.
-- The luggage will cost less than their fares and very likely go for nothing.
-- As for getting the axe, that trifling business cost him no anxiety, for nothing could be easier.
-- 'Why, nowa-days you would cost more than that eighty copecks!And that only because it has been worn.
-- Besides I don't understand about that drunkard who died and that daughter, and how he could have given the daughter all the money 芒聙娄 which 芒聙娄' 'Which cost you such sacrifice, mother,' put in Avdotya Romanovna.
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