| 单词 | to cost money |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cost money P2. to cost money: to be (very) expensive. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > high price or rate > [verb (intransitive)] > be dear or expensive to cost money1596 to run into ——1718 cost1873 to cost the earth1882 1596 W. P. tr. Lazarillo de Tormes: 2nd Pt. x. sig. G4 It seemed good vnto ye king to set it [sc. the use of the title Don] at a high rate, wherby in short space seeing it cost money, there woulde not bee many Dons founde. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 29 Sept. (1974) VIII. 455 All the afternoon talking in my chamber with my wife, about my keeping a coach the next year, and doing something to my house which will cost money. 1682 A. Marsh Ten Pleasures of Marriage ii. 42 You know that the War costs mony. 1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions xii. 301 Fine old Cypress Chests, that cost Money enough when they were in Fashion. 1799 Proc. Old Bailey 4 Dec. 19/1 Q. These are quack medicines—now will you venture to swear that they are worth one farthing?—A. They cost money. 1852 A. Cary Clovernook I. 110 Something pretty costs money: do you think it grows on bushes? 1924 O. W. Holmes Let. 18 Dec. (1953) I. 685 A very good etching of me was published but it is large and costs money. 1968 J. D. Hicks My Life with Hist. xiii. 243 All that tearing down cost money, and besides we had to have an entirely new kitchen. 2007 J. Wuorio Compl. Idiot's Guide Retirement Planning iii. 36 It costs money to pull up stakes and head off down the road. < as lemmas |
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