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