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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His strength then failed him and he let Patroclus' foot drop from his hand, as he fell full length dead upon the body; thus he died far from the fertile land of Larissa, and never repaid his parents the cost of bringing him up, for his life was cut short early by the spear of mighty Ajax.
-- Therefore, noble sir, let us two now take food; you can weep for your dear son hereafter as you are bearing him back to Ilius and many a tear will he cost you.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the cost of bowling over one young fellow I got through, and in another moment I was rushing headlong round the circuit of Russell Square, with six or seven astonished people following my footmarks.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'True, but he has cost us heavily in time which might have been spent in good hunting, in wounds, in hair I am half plucked along my back and last of all, in honor.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not strange that he should so heartlessly have betrayed his friends' confidence, nor that he hesitated not at all to gratify a whim at the cost of another's misery.
-- I would not have given the cost of postage for the picture.
-- The bush was encroaching, and it looked as though very soon the primeval forest would regain possession of that strip of land which had been snatched from it at the cost of so much labour.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was necessary at any cost to arrest their downward course, and to prevent the balloon from being engulfed in the waves.
-- It was he who, after the affair of the Black River, determined at any cost to keep his place at the wicket of the telegraph office, and after having announced to his journal the result of the battle, telegraphed for two hours the first chapters of the Bible.
-- It cost the New York Herald two thousand dollars, but the New York Herald published the first intelligence.
-- The manufacture of a hand-saw cost infinite trouble, but at last an instrument was obtained which, when vigorously handled, could divide the ligneous fibers of the wood.
-- "I suppose so," replied Pencroft, drawing from his lips the object which had cost him a grinder!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She therefore took her grandfather aside, and telling him that she had still enough left to defray the cost of their lodging, proposed that they should stay there for the night.
-- The other was his clerk, assistant, housekeeper, secretary, confidential plotter, adviser, intriguer, and bill of cost increaser, Miss Brass a kind of amazon at common law, of whom it may be desirable to offer a brief description.
-- You're useful to me, Dick, and cost nothing but a little treating now and then.
-- It might have cost me a client.
-- But, whether alone, or with this pliant friend, or with those who would have given him, at any cost or sacrifice, some consolation or some peace of mind, if happily the means could have been devised; he was at all times the same with no love or care for anything in life a broken-hearted man.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She paid 40 rubles to the midwife for two months' board; 25 rubles it cost her to have the child taken away; 40 rubles the midwife borrowed of her to buy a cow with; the balance was spent on dresses, presents, etc., so that after the confinement she was practically penniless, and was compelled to look for a position.
-- In other words, he was paid five rubles for what hired, cheap labor would cost at least ten rubles.
-- Perfected prisons would cost more than is spent on popular education and would be a new burden on the populace."
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It cost him no end of time and groans to haul his wounded leg behind him, and I had quietly finished my arrangements before he was much more than a third of the way up.
-- That was Flint's treasure that we had come so far to seek and that had cost already the lives of seventeen men from the Hispaniola.
-- How many it had cost in the amassing, what blood and sorrow, what good ships scuttled on the deep, what brave men walking the plank blindfold, what shot of cannon, what shame and lies and cruelty, perhaps no man alive could tell.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then the cost of this vessel is great?"
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