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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, they would have it that the Indians, who made them prisoners, would have dragged them into the interior, and it was impossible, they said, to hunt all through Patagonia for three men—three Scotchmen; that the search would be vain and perilous, and cost more lives than it saved.
-- "You shall be carried, my boy; but we must get to the other side of the Cordilleras, cost what it may.
-- What right have we to save the captain at the cost of his son's life?"
-- "To-day's shooting has cost us dear, and we are short of powder and shot.
-- Glenarvan felt that, cost what it might, they must not lose his track, and therefore decided to follow the advice of Thalcave, and go to the village of Tandil.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You would naturally think so and the thought has cost several their lives before now.
-- It cost me 200 pounds, but I got my verdict.'
-- We did so, and at the cost of a severe shock to our client we succeeded in completing our case and driving Stapleton to his destruc-tion.
-- We succeeded in our object at a cost which both the specialist and Dr. Mortimer assure me will be a temporary one.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They cost four hundred roubles more than I had, so I gave my name, and they trusted me.
-- 'There,' she says, 'take your ear-rings, you wretched old miser; although they are ten times dearer than their value to me now that I know what it must have cost Parfen to get them!Give Parfen my compliments,' she says, 'and thank him very much!'
-- Oh!what can it cost you to say just this one word?
-- He only want-ed one thing, and that was to get to Nastasia Philipovna's, even at the cost of a certain amount of impropriety.
-- Instead he had fled from the station, and knew nothing more, until he found himself gazing into the window of a cutler's shop, and wondering if a knife with a staghorn handle would cost more than sixty copecks.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "How much did it cost him?"
-- He never moved but what, if there was any danger of his conduct being misconstrued or ill-reported, he looked carefully about him and counted the cost of every inch of conspicuity.
-- He would be happy, by the Lord, if it cost all honesty of statement, all abandonment of truth.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seegars, I bet you and cost five cents apiece, solid cash.
-- It was the splendidest sight that ever was when they all come riding in, two and two, a gentleman and lady, side by side, the men just in their draw-ers and undershirts, and no shoes nor stirrups, and resting their hands on their thighs easy and comfortable there must a been twenty of them and every lady with a lovely complexion, and per- fectly beautiful, and looking just like a gang of real sure-enough queens, and dressed in clothes that cost millions of dollars, and just littered with dia-monds.
-- A little thing like that don't cost nothing, and it's just the little things that makes a man to be looked up to and liked.
-- It was only a little thing to do, and no trouble; and it's the little things that smooths people's roads the most, down here below; it would make Mary Jane com-fortable, and it wouldn't cost nothing.
-- Now, the way I look at it, a hickry-bark lad-der don't cost nothing, and don't waste nothing, and is just as good to load up a pie with, and hide in a straw tick, as any rag ladder you can start; and as for Jim, he ain't had no ex-perience, and so he don't care what kind of a ' 'Oh, shucks, Huck Finn, if I was as ignorant as you I'd keep still that's what I'D do.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Pinocchio, whether he liked it or not, had to learn all these wonderful things; but it took him three long months and cost him many, many lashings before he was pronounced perfect.
-- "Do you feel so sorry for a little donkey that has cost you nothing?"
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