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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hannah washed and ironed them for me, and I marked them all my-self,' said Beth, looking proudly at the somewhat uneven letters which had cost her such labor.
-- It cost Meg an effort to say that, but Sallie did not see it and exclaimed in amiable surprise, 'Only that?'
-- It cost her a pang even to think of giving up the little treasures which in her eyes were as precious as the old lady's jewels.
-- 'I'm not a show, Aunty, and no one is coming to stare at me, to criticize my dress, or count the cost of my luncheon.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, with but a bit of broken sea-shell or a shark's tooth, that miraculous intricacy of wooden net-work has been achieved; and it has cost steady years of steady application.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I see no saving in parish children, not I; for they always cost more to keep, than they're worth.
-- Oliver thought the old gentleman must be a decided miser to live in such a dirty place, with so many watches; but, thinking that perhaps his fondness for the Dodger and the other boys, cost him a good deal of money, he only cast a deferential look at the Jew, and asked if he might get up.
-- We behold, with throbbing bosoms, the heroine in the grasp of a proud and ruthless baron: her virtue and her life alike in danger, drawing forth her dagger to preserve the one at the cost of the other; and just as our expectations are wrought up to the highest pitch, a whistle is heard, and we are straightway transported to the great hall of the castle; where a grey -headed seneschal sings a funny chorus with a funnier body of vassals, who are free of all sorts of places, from church vaults to palaces, and roam about in company, carolling perpetually.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When this information was given, and they had all taken their seats, Mr. Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might al-most have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first con-vey much gratification; but when Mrs. Phillips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine's drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds, she felt all the force of the compliment, and would hardly have resented a comparison with the housekeeper's room.
-- Nothing, on the contrary, could be more natural; and while able to suppose that it cost him a few struggle to relinquish her, she was ready to allow it a wise and desirable measure for both, and could very sin-cerely wish him happy.
-- Every park has its beauty and its prospects; and Elizabeth saw much to be pleased with, though she could not be in such raptures as Mr. Collins ex-pected the scene to inspire, and was but slightly affected by his enumeration of the windows in front of the house, and his relation of what the glazing altogether had originally cost Sir Lewis de Bourgh.
-- 'They are going to be encamped near Brighton; and I do so want papa to take us all there for the summer!It would be such a delicious scheme; and I dare say would hardly cost anything at all.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But being one day at Hull, where I went casually, and without any purpose of making an elopement at that time; but, I say, being there, and one of my companions being about to sail to London in his father's ship, and prompting me to go with them with the common allurement of seafaring men, that it should cost me nothing for my passage, I consulted neither father nor mother any more, nor so much as sent them word of it; but leaving them to hear of it as they might, without asking God's blessing or my father's, without any consideration of circumstances or consequences, and in an ill hour, God knows, on the 1st of September 1651, I went on board a ship bound for Lon-don.
-- This cost me a great deal of time and labour, especially to cut the piles in the woods, bring them to the place, and drive them into the earth.
-- It cost me much labour and many days before all these things were brought to perfection; and therefore I must go back to some other things which took up some of my thoughts.
-- This cost me as much thought as a statesman would have bestowed upon a grand point of politics, or a judge upon the life and death of a man.
-- This machine cost me a full week's work to bring it to perfection.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man must pay for his convenience; and it HAS cost me a vast deal of money."
-- Nothing escaped HER minute observation and general curiosity; she saw every thing, and asked every thing; was never easy till she knew the price of every part of Marianne's dress; could have guessed the number of her gowns altogether with better judgment than Marianne herself, and was not without hopes of finding out before they parted, how much her washing cost per week, and how much she had every year to spend upon herself.
-- For HIM she felt much compassion; for Lucy very little and it cost her some pains to procure that little; for the rest of the party none at all.
-- " She listened to her praise of Lucy with only moving from one chair to another, and when Mrs. Jennings talked of Edward's affection, it cost her only a spasm in her throat. Such advances towards heroism in her sister, made Elinor feel equal to any thing herself.
-- He would stand to it, cost him what it might."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she interrupted, aroused by memories of longings their show windows had cost her.
-- Minnie, under the warming influence of Carrie's good spirits and her husband's somewhat conversational mood, began to tell Carrie of some of the well-known things to see--things the enjoyment of which cost nothing.
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