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cost

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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

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。

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。