Cost
[kɒst] or [kɔst]
解釋/意思:
(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--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A rib; a side; a region or coast.
(n.) See Cottise.
(imp. & p. p.) of Cost
(v. t.) To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.
(v. t.) To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
(v. t.) The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.
(v. t.) Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
(v. t.) Expenses incurred in litigation.
凯瑟琳編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Be had for, be exchanged for, be bought for.[2]. Require to be suffered.
n. [1]. Expense, charge, price.[2]. Loss, detriment, damage, pain, suffering.
詹森錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Expenditure, outlay, disbursement, payment, compensation, price, worth,expense, charge, outgoings
ANT:Receipt, income, emolument, return, profit, perquisite, revenue
古斯塔夫校對
解釋/意思:
v.t. to bring a certain price: to require to be laid out or suffered:—pa.t. and pa.p. cost.—n. what is laid out or suffered to obtain anything: (pl.) expenses of a lawsuit.—adj. Cost′-free free of charge.—n. Cost′liness.—adv. Cost′ly of great cost: high-priced: valuable.—Cost price the price which the merchant pays.—Prime cost the price of production without regard to profit.
手打:玛吉
例句/造句/用法:
- I'll beat 'em, if it cost me a thousand guineas. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He considers what the land will cost him, in tax and price together. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Yellow diamonds are more flashingly brilliant than white stones that cost much more. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The first year the lamps cost us about $1. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- 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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Dodson and Fogg have taken Mrs. Bardell in execution for her costs, Sir,' said Job. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- It warn't much--execution for nine pound nothin', multiplied by five for costs; but hows'ever here he stopped for seventeen year. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- This whim suited me the better at this time, from the cheapness of it, not costing us above eighteen pence sterling each per week. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Platinum even in those days was very expensive, costing several dollars an ounce, and I owned only three small strips. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I can't have a carriage without its costing ever so much. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- A roller three inches long, costing forty cents, will answer for all small leaves and branches of plants. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- The lamps at that time were costing about $1. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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. 十九世紀發明進展.
錄入:莉娜