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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Esperance and the Recherche passed before Vanikoro without stopping there, and, in fact, this voyage was most disastrous, as it cost D'Entrecasteaux his life, and those of two of his lieutenants, besides several of his crew.
-- After all, these Papuans are poor creatures, and I am unwilling that my visit to the island should cost the life of a single one of these wretches."
-- No one has ever seen anything like it; but the sight may cost us dear.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Anybody could have bread for asking, and a loaf cost only three-ha'pence.
-- "They must pay cost price henceforward.
-- At any rate, let them pay the cost of their coals.
-- He had a set of really clever engineers, both mining and electrical, and they did not cost much.
-- A highly educated man cost very little more than a workman.
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