英语词汇“to a person's cost”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. to a person's cost: resulting in a person's expense; (in later use) to a person's loss, detriment, or misfortune.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > disadvantageously [phrase] > to the disadvantage of

to a person's cost?1531

in (the) disfavour of1590

to the disfavour of1858

?1531 tr. Plutarch Howe One may take Profite of Enmyes f. 9 Fortune in takynge awaye that, that was mooste dere vnto me, hath made me wyse, to my coste.

1589 tr. J. de Frégeville Reformed Politicke ii. 51 The Kinges, Clergie and Commons may to their costes learne the hurte that they take by the Popes yoke.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 11 Sha. He is at Oxford stil, is he not? Si. Indeede sir to my cost .

1647 A. Cowley Mistresse 4 But quickly to my Cost I found, 'Twas cruel Love..had made the wound.

1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 21 We soon learnt to our Cost that we were far from having heard the worst of it.

1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret ii. 41 I am unwitch'd, and that you shall know to your cost.

1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner i. 87 He knows it to his cost, good man!

1876 Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 592 Employers have invariably tended to over-production, as capitalists know to their cost.

1920 Kingsport (Tennessee) Times 1 June 3/6 America has now realized to her cost that she constitutes an important factor in the economic world.

1978 Times of India 25 May 8/5 A stock of ghost stories could make or mar one's reputation—as I found to my cost.

2011 E. Timms Taking up Torch v. 65 This was not for the fainthearted, as we discovered to our cost.

单词	to a person's cost
释义	> as lemmas to a person's cost b. to a person's cost: resulting in a person's expense; (in later use) to a person's loss, detriment, or misfortune. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > disadvantageously [phrase] > to the disadvantage of to a person's cost?1531 in (the) disfavour of1590 to the disfavour of1858 ?1531 tr. Plutarch Howe One may take Profite of Enmyes f. 9 Fortune in takynge awaye that, that was mooste dere vnto me, hath made me wyse, to my coste. 1589 tr. J. de Frégeville Reformed Politicke ii. 51 The Kinges, Clergie and Commons may to their costes learne the hurte that they take by the Popes yoke. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 11 Sha. He is at Oxford stil, is he not? Si. Indeede sir to my cost . View more context for this quotation 1647 A. Cowley Mistresse 4 But quickly to my Cost I found, 'Twas cruel Love..had made the wound. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 21 We soon learnt to our Cost that we were far from having heard the worst of it. 1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret ii. 41 I am unwitch'd, and that you shall know to your cost. 1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner i. 87 He knows it to his cost, good man! 1876 Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 592 Employers have invariably tended to over-production, as capitalists know to their cost. 1920 Kingsport (Tennessee) Times 1 June 3/6 America has now realized to her cost that she constitutes an important factor in the economic world. 1978 Times of India 25 May 8/5 A stock of ghost stories could make or mar one's reputation—as I found to my cost. 2011 E. Timms Taking up Torch v. 65 This was not for the fainthearted, as we discovered to our cost. extracted from costn.³ < as lemmas
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