(noun.) the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor.
(verb.) require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice; 'This mistake cost him his job'.
(verb.) be priced at; 'These shoes cost $100'.
阿维斯整理
双语例句
I'll beat 'em, if it cost me a thousand guineas. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
She could write letters enough for both, as she knew to her cost, and it was far better for him to be amiable than learned. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
He considers what the land will cost him, in tax and price together. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
The pipe of tobacco finished the business: and the Bute-Crawleys never knew how many thousand pounds it cost them. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Yellow diamonds are more flashingly brilliant than white stones that cost much more. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The first year the lamps cost us about $1. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
If it was cheap ugliness, I'd say nothing, but it costs as much as the other, and I don't get any satisfaction out of it. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
But though the wear and tear of a free servant be equally at the expense of his master, it generally costs him much less than that of a slave. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
In the Milan cathedral it costs five francs to see it, and at St. Peter's, at Rome, it is almost impossible to see it at any price. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Dodson and Fogg have taken Mrs. Bardell in execution for her costs, Sir,' said Job. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
It warn't much--execution for nine pound nothin', multiplied by five for costs; but hows'ever here he stopped for seventeen year. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
Thus they not only had a greater investment than necessary in the truck itself, but were paying an exclusive charge in the way of operating costs and depreciation. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
He's never content unless he gets my yellow-sealed wine, which costs me ten shillings a bottle, hang him! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Get a quarter or half a pound of dark green ink, which is put up in collapsible tubes costing from fifty cents to $2 per pound, according to quality. 威廉K.戴维.智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
This whim suited me the better at this time, from the cheapness of it, not costing us above eighteen pence sterling each per week. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
Platinum even in those days was very expensive, costing several dollars an ounce, and I owned only three small strips. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
I can't have a carriage without its costing ever so much. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
A roller three inches long, costing forty cents, will answer for all small leaves and branches of plants. 威廉K.戴维.智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
The lamps at that time were costing about $1. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Such machines, costing nearly a thousand dollars, produce from forty to sixty barrels of crackers a day, enabling them to be sold at about 5 cents a pound at retail. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.