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cost (sb) sth if something costs a particular amount of money, you have to pay that amount in order to buy, make or do it花费；价钱为 ◆ The hotel costs €90 a night. 在旅馆住一夜花费 90 欧元。 ◆ How much does it cost? 这要多少钱？ ◆ These delays cost small businesses well over €1 billion. 这些延误让小企业要支付 10 亿多欧元。 ◆ These reforms will cost money (= be expensive) .这些改革要花很多钱。
cost (sb) sth to make sb/sth lose sth 使丧失；使付出代价 ◆ The rise in interest rates could cost thousands of jobs. 利率一上升，可能数以千计的工作岗位就没了。 ◆ The merger has cost the company its independence. 合并使公司丧失了独立性。
( ) ( costed ,costed )cost sth (out) ( oftenbe costed ) to calculate how much money is needed to make or do sth 计算成本；估价 ◆ Calls are costed per unit. 通话成本按每单位计算。 ◆ The programme was first costed at $23 billion.这计划最初的成本估算为 230 亿元。
