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近义词expense sacrifice loss

vt. 花费；使付出；使花许多钱
n. 费用，代价，成本；损失
vi. 花费
n. (Cost)人名；(英、罗)科斯特

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词态变化

复数: costs;第三人称单数: costs;过去式: cost;过去分词: cost;现在分词: costing;

中文词源

cost 成本

co-, 强调。-st, 站。字面意思即站在旁边的，要求投入的。

英英释意

1. the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor

2. the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold);: "the fluctuating monetary value of gold and silver"; "he puts a high price on his services"; "he couldn't calculate the cost of the collection"

3. value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something;: "the cost in human life was enormous"; "the price of success is hard work"; "what price glory?"

英文词源

cost: cost: [13] In Latin, something that cost a particular price literally ‘stood at or with’ that price. The Latin verb constāre was formed from the prefix com- ‘with’ and stāre ‘stand’ (a relative of English stand). In Vulgar Latin this became *costāre, which passed into English via Old French coster (the derived noun arrived first, the verb a couple of decades later). The adjective costly is a 14th century formation.
=> stand, statue
cost (n.): c. 1200, from Old French cost (12c., Modern French coût) "cost, outlay, expenditure; hardship, trouble," from Vulgar Latin *costare, from Latin constare, literally "to stand at" (or with), with a wide range of figurative senses including "to cost." The idiom is the same one used in Modern English when someone says something "stands at X dollars" to mean it sells for X dollars. The Latin word is from com- "with" (see com-) + stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet).
cost (v.): late 14c., from Old French coster (Modern French coûter) "to cost," from cost (see cost (n.)).

同义词辨析

charge, price, fee, fare, cost, expense

这些名词均有"价格，费用"之意。

charge：指提供服务时索取的费用，也指货物的价格、价钱。

price：指商品在市场出售的价格，尤指卖方对商品所提出的单价。比喻意义指付出的代价。

fee：指上学、求医以及找律师等付的费用，还可指会费、借书费等。

fare：侧重指旅行时所付的车、船费等费用。

cost：指生产某东西的成本，也泛指商品的价格，可与price换用。

expense：常指实际支付的费用总数额，有时也指钱的花费。

cost, expend, spend, take

这些动词均含"花费"之意。

cost：指花费时间、金钱、劳力等。其主语是物，而不能由人充当，也不用被动形式。

expend：较正式用词，通常指为某一专门目的而花费大量金钱、时间或精力。

spend：普通用词，与cost基本同义，但主语必须是人。

take：普通用词，指需要占用空间、时间或精力等，其主语可以是人，也可以是一件事情。

考试真题

Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.

The cost for saving our civilization would be considerably less than the world's current military spending.

The concept has multiple forms, and scholars and policymakers argue about the shape, scope and cost of the ideal program.

For many in the development community, the four objectives were seen as positive, promoting development as long as they did not cost too much.

Manufacturers can produce consumer goods at a much lower cost.

Facing an 8.3-billion-dollar budget deficit this year, closing post offices is one of several proposals the Postal Service has put forth recently to cut costs.

A part-time job is a good way to balance costs while ensuring there is enough time left over for both academic subjects and after-class activities.

To help quantify ( ' , 量化 ) the costs of a poor diet, I recently tried to estimate this impact in terms of a most famous food, the burger ( ' , 汉堡包 ).

ConAgra’s Research and Development staff spent a year working under the instruction: whatever the cost, don’t sacrifice taste.

But the code to access the program cost $120—a big sum for Harper, who had already put down $450 for textbooks, and had rent day approaching.

But this can be chalked up to the excessively high cost of their books—which has increased over 1, 000 percent since 1977.

Changing building codes, evolving tastes, and the high cost of maintaining those wonderful old signs have businesses embracing LEDs, which are energy efficient, but still carry great cost.

ConAgra's Research and Development staff spent a year working under the instruction: whatever the cost, don't sacrifice taste.

Even when they stay on the right side of the law, Internet providers arouse customers' anger over bandwidth speed and cost.

He has a lot of experience with boats, and it'll work out a lot cheaper to hire one if there's more of us to share the cost.

If I stayed in the U.S., it'd take two years and cost at least 50,000 dollars in tuition alone.

In 2018 alone, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, mudslides, and other natural disasters cost at least $49 billion in the United States.

On the other hand, imagine the cost savings for local police enforcement and town budgets without all those speeding and parking tickets.

The aircraft cost 25 million pounds and can carry heavier loads than huge jet planes while also producing less noise and emitting less pollution.

This help is critically important because the high cost of caring for animal victims is a major factor that prevents people from getting involved in cruelty cases in the first place.

This means that some wells may even need to undergo desalination after extraction, thus increasing the cost.

This will cover the cost of making all 12 shows in the first season for the first year.

While alternative estimates of the damage from carbon emissions differ, and it's especially hard to reckon the likely costs of possible catastrophic climate events, most estimates suggest substantial negative effects.

These math circles cost nothing, or they're very cheap for students to get involved in, but you have to know about them, said Rusczyk.

The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.

The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.

Students use forums to chat, play games, and solve problems together at no cost, or they can pay a few hundred dollars to take courses with trained teachers.

Some are pricey—a three-week intensive program can cost $4,500 or more—but most offer scholarships.

Setting the right carbon price will therefore efficiently align the costs paid by carbon users with the true social opportunity cost of using carbon.

It is urgent for governments to increase the cost of using fossil fuels to an appropriate level to lessen the catastrophic effects of climate change.

Facilities management by colleges is more cost-effective.

Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral ( ' , 附带的) costs.

Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system—doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness—is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.

They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs, are treated properly.

The high cost of medical services and unnecessary tests and treatments have driven up medical expenses.

The good news is that a bill just approved by the House and a bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee would implement or test many reforms that should help slow the rise in medical costs over the long term.

The average budget for a major kitchen overhaul in 2006, calculates Remodeling magazine, was a staggering $54,000; even a minor improvement cost on average $18,000.

The answer is that no one has an easy fix for rising medical costs.

The Senate Finance bill would impose an excise tax ( ' , 消费税) on health insurance plans that cost more than $8,000 for an individual or $21,000 for a family.

Poor countries will have to bear the cost for rich nations' economic development.

Missing from these bills is any serious attempt to rein in malpractice costs.

It is not easy to curb the rising medical costs in America.

In time it should help restrain costs by eliminating redundant tests, preventing drug interactions, and helping doctors find the best treatments.

If private plans demanded similar productivity savings from providers, and refused to let providers shift additional costs to them, the savings could be much larger.

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson&Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian-style one which would cost £145,000-155,000— excluding building, plumbing and electrical work.

Americans are deeply concerned about the relentless rise in health care costs and health insurance premiums.

Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate free-riders: causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while incurring few of the costs such as climate change's impact on food and water.

The solution: set priorities—add up the annual cost of each item, then consider what else you could buy with the same money.

One Chicago woman, for example, discovered that daily lunches with coworkers cost her 2,000 dollars a year.

While that may make suborbital travel safer, it would add significant cost and complexity to an emerging industry that has until now operated largely as the playground of billionaires and dreamy engineers.

They have to operate for long periods of time before the costs of development have been recovered.

Take costs into account when making treatment decisions.

Some analysts say that there's a role for doctors to play in cost analysis because not many others are doing so.

Saying they can no longer ignore the rising prices of health care, some of the most influential medical groups in the nation are recommending that doctors weigh the costs, not just the effectiveness of treatments, as they make decisions about patient care.

Like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.

In the extreme, some critics have said that making treatment decisions based on cost is a form of rationing.

In practical terms, the new guidelines being develop could result in doctors choosing one drug over another for cost reasons or even deciding that a particular treatment — at the end of life, for example — is too expensive.

But one costs $50 a dose and the other close to $2,000.

"The sun provides the lowest cost of production and the cheapest meat," he says.

"These math circles cost nothing, or they're very cheap for students to get involved in, but you have to know about them," said Rusczyk.

and some parents say they can manage the cost of a school trip abroad more easily than a family holiday.

But Smith counters that if you factor in the hidden cost of government corn subsidies, environment degradation, and decreased human heath and animal welfare, grass-fed is the more cost-effective model.

Either a college major is worth its cost or it isn't.

Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson&Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian style one which would cost £145,000-155,000—excluding building, plumbing and electrical w

For instance, a research group here at Arizona State University recently claimed their developmental small CubeSats could cost as little as $3, 000 to put in orbit.

For instance, there's a high energy cost in switching from a regular metabolism to an almost-no-water metabolism.

However, as the cost of getting your own satellite in orbit drops sharply, the risks of irresponsible use grow.

If taxpayers are to bear the cost of forgiving student loans, shouldn't they have a say in how their money is used?

In fact, cost sharing could be a very practical solution, especially in times of financial difficulty.

In the extreme, some critics have said that making treatment decisions based on cost is a form of rationing .

It has consequences: South Africa's ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its com crop this year.

Maybe you see low customer participation at first, or conversely, so much success that the cost of recycling becomes too high.

Now, the only apparent cost to taking infinite photos of something as common as a meal is the space on your hard drive and your dining companion's patience.

One should buy the policies to give the most protection at the least cost, ensure the right family members and consider the family's financial needs.

Some are pricey—a three-week intensive program can cost $4, 500 or more—but most offer scholarships.

Still, some analysts say that there's a role for doctors to play in cost analysis because not many others are doing so.

Stress is taking a significant toll on our health, and the collective public health cost may be enormous.

The average budget for a "major" kitchen overhaul in 2006, calculates Remodeling magazine, was a staggering $54, 000; even a "minor" improvement cost on average$18, 000.

The biggest and most exciting challenge of this technology is how to creatively leverage this ever-growing amount of data to deliver cost savings, improvements and tangible benefits to both businesses and citizens of these smart cities.

The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal c

The Senate finance bill would impose an excise tax(消费税) on health insurance plans that cost more than $8, 000 for an individual or $21, 000 for a family.

They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs

This decrease in cost allows researchers, hobbyists and even elementary school groups to put simple instruments into LEO or even having them deployed from the ISS.

virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system— doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness — is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.

Yet, she noted, many young people are especially unwilling to take risks at school—afraid that one low test score or poor grade could cost them a spot at a selective university.

A cup of coffee costs about three dollars and fifty cents, but the fun is free.

After having taught fifth-grade classes for four years, I decided to try all costs to rid them of their fear and dislike of books, and to get them to read oftener and more adventurously.

Callie Babbitt and her colleagues at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York tracked the environmental costs for each product throughout its life – from when its minerals are mined to when we stop using the device.

Many studies show that older parents—today's grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.

From the governments' point of view, a primary goal of laws requiring extended producer responsibility is to transfer both the cost and the physical responsibility of waste management from the government and tax-payers back to the producers.

How much does the t-shirt normally cost?

I have $20, 000 now, and the car costs $25, 000.

In a society that tends to measure everything in terms of dollars and cents, we learn form a young age to consider the costs of our decisions in financial terms.

It costs 150 dollars, and you can drive straight from the airport to your house.

It costs a large amount of money.

It's expected to cost $279, 000.

More broadly the Wakefield survey suggests that employers may be missing a low-cost way to give workers something of value.

My trip to the repair shop cost me $62, and the sit is working well now, but I keep expecting more trouble.

Or, maybe all I would find was absolutely nothing! But something inside me was going to climb that mountain at all cost.

Researchers from georgia tech say that they have come up with a low-cost device装置that gets around this problem: a smart keyboard.

So by increasing their song output, there might be some costs of energy.

The basket cost more than she had saved.

The cost of adaptation varies with time.

The cost to repair it was estimated at $800.

The disadvantages of large human brains ·the larger brains may not be better because of the cost.

The first commercially available driverless cars will almost certainly be fielded by ride-hailing services, considering the cost of self-driving technology as well as liability and maintenance issues.

The industry cost might be increased.

There could be an even higher cost on your health.

They can purchase shade-grown coffee whenever possible, although at a higher cost.

They cost more to use at home.

They made reservations at restaurants where the cost of a bottle of wine equaled a college year's monthly rent.

This brief visit with mother nature cost me two days off from work, recovering from a bad case of sunburn and the doctor's bill for my son's food poisoning.

While regularly eating out seems to have become common for many young people in recent years, it's not without a cost.

As the cost to everyone else has become clearer, politicians have begun to clamp down.

The other reason why costs are so high is the restrictive guild-like ownership structure of the business.

One is the excessive costs of a legal education.

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms’ efficiency.

Getting the print edition seven days a week costs $500 a year—more than twice as much as a digital-only subscription.

But Congress should look into doing so directly, by helping to finance PreCheck enrollment or to cut costs in other ways.

There's no change to collective bargaining at the USPS, a major omission considering that personnel accounts for 80 percent of the agency's costs.

Meanwhile, it has more than $120 billion in unfunded liabilities, mostly for employee health and retirement costs.

In December of 1869, Congress appointed a commission to select a site and prepare plans and cost estimates for a new State Department Building.

It cost less than a fiver but she was overjoyed, and couldn't stop talking about it.

Stop laughing: It's not just cost effective but helps you balance your diet.

The cost of solar panels has dropped by 80 percent and the cost of wind turbines by close to one-third in the past eight years.

The Supreme Court's opinion Thursday overruled a pair of decades-old decisions that states said cost them billions of dollars in lost revenue annually.

This might mean implementing policy such as a plastic tax that adds a cost to environmentally problematic action, or banning single-use plastics altogether.

词组搭配

at all costs (或 at any cost)

regardless of the price to be paid or the effort needed

不惜任何代价

he was anxious to avoid war at all costs.
他愿不惜一切代价来避免战争。

at cost

at cost price; without profit to the seller

按成本；以成本价

cost an arm and a leg

cost someone dear (或 dearly)

involve someone in a serious loss or a heavy penalty

使遭受严重损失；使受严惩

they were really bad mistakes on my part and they cost us dear.
这是我犯的严重错误，使我们遭受了极大损失。

to someone's cost

with loss or disadvantage to someone

付出代价；吃苦头

without programmes to play on it, the cleverest machine is useless—as some hardware manufacturers already know to their cost.
没有节目可以播放，再好的机器也是无用的——这是一些硬件制造商的经验教训。

实用场景例句

the high/low cost of housing: 住宅的高昂 / 低廉费用

A new computer system has been installed at a cost of £80 000.: 新的计算机系统已安装，费用为8万英镑。

The plan had to be abandoned on grounds of cost.: 由于经费的原因此项计划被迫放弃。

We did not even make enough money to cover the cost of the food.: 我们挣的钱甚至无法糊口。

Consumers will have to bear the full cost of these pay increases.: 消费者将不得不承担增加工资所需的全部费用。

The total cost to you (= the amount you have to pay) is £3 000.: 你总共要支付3 000英镑。

The use of cheap labour helped to keep costs down.: 使用廉价劳动力有助于降低成本。

The increase will hurt small business and cost many thousands of jobs.: 这种增长会使小企业受损并使成千上万的人失去工作。

They told Jacques Delors a disastrous world trade war must be avoided at all costs.: 他们告诉雅克·德洛尔必须不惜任何代价避免一场毁灭性的世界贸易战。

This book is of such importance that it must be published at any cost...: 这本书非常重要，无论如何也要出版。

He ordered the army to recapture the camp at any cost.: 他命令军队无论如何也要夺回营地。

Several countries in eastern Europe are counting the cost of yesterday's earthquake...: 东欧的几个国家正在计算昨天的地震带来的损失。

Many people act on impulse without counting the cost.: 很多人不考虑后果就莽撞行事。

Well-designed clothes cost money.: 设计精美的服装价格昂贵。

Kathryn knows to her cost the effect of having served a jail sentence...: 凯瑟琳吃了苦头才知道服过刑会给一个人带来什么影响。

There are very few people he can talk to in total confidence, as he has discovered to his cost.: 他吃了亏后才发现自己真正能够交心的人寥寥无几。

...a six-year-old boy whose life was saved by an operation that cost him his sight...: 手术救了一名6岁男孩的命，却使他失明了

...being so afraid of something that you feel you have to avoid it whatever the cost to your lifestyle.: 如此地害怕某事觉得必须避开它，无论自己的生活方式因此受到怎样的影响都在所不惜

The cost of a loaf of bread has increased five-fold...: 一条面包的价钱增长了4倍。

In 1989 the price of coffee fell so low that in many countries it did not even cover the cost of production...: 1989年咖啡的价格跌至低谷，在很多国家甚至连生产成本都收不回来。

This course is limited to 12 people and costs £50...: 该课程只招收12人，学费为50英镑。

Painted walls look much more interesting and doesn't cost much...: 彩绘墙壁看上去更有趣而且花费也不高。

Costs have been cut by 30 to 50 per cent...: 成本降低了30%到50%。

The company admits its costs are still too high.: 该公司承认其成本仍然过高。

Everything that goes into making a programme, staff, rent, lighting, is now costed.: 制作节目的所有成本：人工、租用场地、灯光现在都已经估算了。

...seventy apartments, shops, offices, a restaurant and hotel, costed at around 10 million pounds.: 估价约为1,000万英镑的70套公寓、店铺、办公室、一家大饭店

He was jailed for 18 months and ordered to pay £550 costs.: 他被监禁了18个月，还责令他支付550英镑的诉讼费。

...a store that provided cigarettes and candy bars at cost.: 按成本价出售香烟和糖果的商店

...a practice known as dumping – that is, selling below cost to drive competition out of business.: 倾销行为——即通过以低于成本的价格销售产品来挤垮竞争对手

In March Mr Salinas shut down the city's oil refinery at a cost of $500 million and 5,000 jobs.: 3月份，萨利纳斯先生关闭了该市的炼油场，造成5亿美元的损失，并使5,000人失去了工作。