cost的两种用法
1 费用;花费;价钱the cost of a loaf of bread has increased five-fold...
一条面包的价钱增长了4倍。
2需付费;价钱为this course is limited to 12 people and costs £50...
该课程只招收12人,学费为50英镑。
3成本
costs have been cut by 30 to 50 per cent...
成本降低了30%到50%。
4估算成本;估价
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
5成本价a store that provided cigarettes and candy bars at cost.
按成本价出售香烟和糖果的商店
6 代价;损失
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。
7使丧失;使损失
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