| 词组 | price - cost |
| 释义 | price - cost The price or cost of something is the amount of money you must pay to buy it. ...an increase in the cost of fertilizer. Note that you do not use any preposition except 'of' after price or cost in sentences like these. You can also use cost to refer to the amount of money needed to do or make something. The building was recently restored at a cost of £500,000. They are now manufactured by the billion at a cost of a few pence each. You do not use price in this way. ◊ 'costs' You use the plural noun costs when you are referring to the total amount of money needed to run something such as a business. She decided she needed to cut her costs by half. Moulton's have had to raise their prices still higher to cover increased costs. ◊ 'cost' used as a verb You use cost as a verb to talk about the amount of money that you must pay for something. The dress costs $200. These four books cost £2.95 each. You can use cost with two objects to say how much money someone actually pays for something on a particular occasion. Note that the past tense and past participle of 'cost' is cost, not 'costed'. A two-day stay there cost me $125. Note that you do not use 'to' after cost in a sentence like this. |
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