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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sparrow now hopped in, perched upon the window- seat, and cried, 'Carter!it shall cost thee thy life!'
-- But the sparrow began to 41flutter about, and stretch out her neck and cried, 'Carter!it shall cost thee thy life yet!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The emperor was already descended from the tower, and advancing on horse-back towards me, which had like to have cost him dear; for the beast, though very well trained, yet wholly unused to such a sight, which appeared as if a mountain moved before him, reared up on its hinder feet: but that prince, who is an excellent horseman, kept his seat, till his attendants ran in, and held the bridle, while his majesty had time to dismount.
-- The heat I had con-tracted by coming very near the flames, and by labouring to quench them, made the wine begin to operate by urine; which I voided in such a quantity, and applied so well to the proper places, that in three minutes the fire was wholly ex-tinguished, and the rest of that noble pile, which had cost so many ages in erecting, preserved from destruction.
-- below par; that I had cost his 74 Gulliver's Travelsmajesty above a million and a half of sprugs' (their great-est gold coin, about the bigness of a spangle) 'and, upon the whole, that it would be advisable in the emperor to take the first fair occasion of dismissing me.'
-- I shall not trouble the reader with the difficulties I was under, by the help of certain paddles, which cost me ten days making, to get my boat to the royal port of Blefuscu, where a mighty concourse of people appeared upon my ar-rival, full of wonder at the sight of so prodigious a vessel.
-- In this exercise I once met an accident, which had like to have cost me my life; for, one of the pages having put my boat into the trough, the governess who attended Glumdal-clitch very officiously lifted me up, to place me in the boat: but I happened to slip through her fingers, and should in-fallibly have fallen down forty feet upon the floor, if, by the luckiest chance in the world, I had not been stopped by a corking-pin that stuck in the good gentlewoman's stomach-er; the head of the pin passing between my shirt and the waistband of my breeches, and thus I was held by the mid-dle in the air, till Glumdalclitch ran to my relief.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, Thomas, it is really shameful, with my poor head continually wearing me out, that a boy brought up as you have been, and whose education has cost what yours has, should be found encouraging his sister to wonder, when he knows his father has expressly said that she is not to do it.'
-- M'Choakumchild reported that she had a very dense head for figures; that, once possessed with a general idea of the globe, she took the smallest conceivable interest in its exact measurements; that she was extremely slow in the acquisition of dates, unless some pitiful incident happened to be connected therewith; that she would burst into tears on being required (by the mental process) immediately to name the cost of two hundred and forty-seven muslin caps at fourteen-pence halfpenny; that she was as low down, in the school, as low could be; that after eight weeks of induction into the elements of Political Economy, she had only yesterday been set right by a prattler three feet high, for returning to the question, 'What is the first principle of this science?'
-- 'Why, you'd have to go to Doctors' Commons with a suit, and you'd have to go to a court of Common Law with a suit, and you'd have to go to the House of Lords with a suit, and you'd have to get an Act of Parliament to enable you to marry again, and it would cost you (if it was a case of very plain sailing), I suppose from a thousand to fifteen hundred pound,' said Mr. Bounderby.
-- Though it would cost him a hard pang to leave her, and though he could think of no similar place in which his condemnation would not pursue him, perhaps it was almost a relief to be forced away from the endurance of the last four days, even to unknown difficulties and distresses.
-- 'I ha' fell into th' pit, my dear, as have cost wi'in the knowledge o' old fok now livin, hundreds and hundreds o' men's lives fathers, sons, brothers, dear to thousands an' thousands, an' keeping 'em fro' want and hunger.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Despite my irritation and despair, I knew how much it cost my uncle to make this proposition, and to hold such conciliatory language.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tevershall pit-bank was burning, had been burning for years, and it would cost thousands to put it out.
-- She had cost him that bitter privacy of a man who at last wants only to be alone.
-- It cost too much to keep up.
-- But neither was I. I knew when I could go no further with him, and then I gave in: though it cost me a good bit, sometimes.'
-- It cost her an effort to let him have his way and his will of her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In those early days, the turnkey first began profoundly to consider a question which cost him so much mental labour, that it remained undetermined on the day of his death.
-- And he got what I wrote out displayed at a few places where it cost nothing, and Mrs Clennam found me that way, and sent for me.
-- I won't say how much money it cost him, or how many years of his life he had been about it, but he brought it to perfection a dozen years ago.
-- 'One must eat,' he muttered to himself, 'but by Heaven I must eat at the cost of some other man to-morrow!'
-- She went by the Iron Bridge, though it cost her a penny, and walked more slowly in that part of her journey than in any other.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She likes it, and it won't cost much, so I'll have some left to buy my pencils,' added Amy.
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