英汉词典

cost 基本解释

• 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

cost 词态变化

cost 中文词源

co-, 强调。-st, 站。字面意思即站在旁边的，要求投入的。

cost 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.)).

cost 词组搭配

cost 英文释义

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?"

cost 同义词解析

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。

cost 双语例句

1. Companies are moving jobs to towns with a lower cost of living.

各公司正在把工作岗位转移至生活费用较低的城镇。

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2. The new shopping centre was constructed at a cost of 1.1 million.

新建成的购物中心耗资110万。

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3. The company has made heroic efforts at cost reduction.

公司在降低成本方面付出了艰苦卓绝的努力。

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4. The total cost of the project would be more than $240 million.

该项目的总成本会超过2.4亿美元。

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5. Calls cost 36p (cheap rate) and 48p (peak rate) per minute.

电话每分钟36便士（优惠费率）和48便士（高峰费率）。

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cost 实用场景例句

the high/low cost of housing

住宅的高昂 / 低廉费用

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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The total cost to you (= the amount you have to pay) is £3 000.

你总共要支付3 000英镑。

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The use of cheap labour helped to keep costs down.

使用廉价劳动力有助于降低成本。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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Many people act on impulse without counting the cost.

很多人不考虑后果就莽撞行事。

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Well-designed clothes cost money.

设计精美的服装价格昂贵。

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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。

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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。

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...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

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...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

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The cost of a loaf of bread has increased five-fold...

一条面包的价钱增长了4倍。

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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。

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This course is limited to 12 people and costs £50...

该课程只招收12人，学费为50英镑。

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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。

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Costs have been cut by 30 to 50 per cent...

成本降低了30%到50%。

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The company admits its costs are still too high.

该公司承认其成本仍然过高。

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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。

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...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

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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。

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...a store that provided cigarettes and candy bars at cost.

按成本价出售香烟和糖果的商店

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...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

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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。

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