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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I say to myself, "I'll conquer thatfellow"; and if it were to cost him all the blood he had, I should doit.
-- Accordingly we looked in at a baker's window, and after I hadmade a series of proposals to buy everything that was bilious in theshop, and he had rejected them one by one, we decided in favourof a nice little loaf of brown bread, which cost me three-pence.
-- The exertion this cost him, or theconsciousness of talking in that feeble way, made his angry face so 83much more angry, and his thick veins so much thicker, when hespoke, that I am not surprised, on looking back, at this peculiaritystriking me as his chief one.
-- 'Nothing seems to cost him any trouble,' said I.
-- It cost mesome trouble to find out Salem House; but I found it, and found ahaystack in the corner, and I lay down by it; having first walkedround the wall, and looked up at the windows, and seen that allwas dark and silent within.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The weather affected Mr. Woodhouse, and he could only be kept tolerably comfortable by almost ceaseless at-tention on his daughter's side, and by exertions which had never cost her half so much before.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jane Perkins worked at him for two months like a slave, and the two Miss Taylors spent a year upon him, and he cost Farmer Ives's daughter nights of tears and twenty pounds' worth of new clothes; but Lord the money might as well have been thrown out of the window."
-- Boldwood's had begun to be a troublesome image a species of Daniel in her kingdom who persisted in kneeling eastward when reason and common sense said that he might just as well follow suit with the rest, and afford her the official glance of admiration which cost nothing at all.
-- The polishing alone of the set cost me eleven pounds the slabs are the best of their kind, and I can warrant them to resist rain and frost for a hundred years without flying."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus equipped for the campaign, the widow looked exactly like the prize animal hung out for a sign above an a la mode beef shop; but she herself was so much pleased with the improvement, as she considered it, in her appearance, that she felt that she lay under some obligation to the Countess; and, though by no means open-handed, she begged that lady to accept a hat that cost twenty francs.
-- How can I go into society, when to manage properly you want a lot of cabs, varnished boots, gold watch chains, and all sorts of things; you have to wear white doeskin gloves that cost six francs in the morning, and primrose kid gloves every evening?
-- "This escapade will cost me a king's ransom, but, at any rate, I shall call on my so-called cousin in a thoroughly aristocratic fashion.
-- Goriot has cost me ten francs already, the old scoundrel.
-- He began to understand, though somewhat tardily, that he must not expect to find many women in Paris who were not already appropriated, and that the capture of one of these queens would be likely to cost something more than bloodshed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then her rage broke, the same rage that drove Gerald to murder andother Irish ancestors to misdeeds that cost them their necks.
-- The war didn't seem to be a holy affair, but a nuisance that killedmen senselessly and cost money and made luxuries hard to get.
-- The butcher shopscarried almost no beef and very little mutton, and that mutton cost so much only the rich could afford it.
-- "I have only fifty dollars but next month " "It would cost about two thousand dollars, Confederate money," he said with a grin at her woebegone expression.
-- She only saw that the bonnet was the most becoming one she ever had, that it had not cost her a penny and thatRhett must be in love with her, whether he admitted it or not.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Which was, I suppose, as false a declaration as ever was made; for I was inwardly crying for her then, and I know what I know of the pain she cost me afterwards.
-- "You cost me that place.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This deed of thine shall cost thee all thou art worth.'
-- said the sparrow; 'thy cruelty shall cost thee they life yet!'
-- But the sparrow sat on the outside of the window, and cried 'Carter!thy cruelty shall cost thee thy life!'
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