• vt. 花費；使付出；使花許多錢
• n. 費用，代價，成本；損失
• vi. 花費
• n. (Cost)人名；(英、羅)科斯特

co-, 強調。-st, 站。字面意思即站在旁邊的，要求投入的。

cost

cost: [13] In Latin, something that cost a particular price literally ‘stood at or with’ that price. The Latin verb constāre was formed from the prefix com- ‘with’ and stāre ‘stand’ (a relative of English stand). In Vulgar Latin this became *costāre, which passed into English via Old French coster (the derived noun arrived first, the verb a couple of decades later). The adjective costly is a 14th century formation.
=> stand, statue

cost (n.)

c. 1200, from Old French cost (12c., Modern French co?t) "cost, outlay, expenditure; hardship, trouble," from Vulgar Latin *costare, from Latin constare, literally "to stand at" (or with), with a wide range of figurative senses including "to cost." The idiom is the same one used in Modern English when someone says something "stands at X dollars" to mean it sells for X dollars. The Latin word is from com- "with" (see com-) + stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet).

cost (v.)

late 14c., from Old French coster (Modern French co?ter) "to cost," from cost (see cost (n.)).

1. Companies are moving jobs to towns with a lower cost of living.

各公司正在把工作崗位轉移至生活費用較低的城鎮。

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2. The new shopping centre was constructed at a cost of 1.1 million.

新建成的購物中心耗資110萬。

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3. The company has made heroic efforts at cost reduction.

公司在降低成本方面付出了艱苦卓絕的努力。

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4. The total cost of the project would be more than $240 million.

該項目的總成本會超過2.4億美元。

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5. Calls cost 36p (cheap rate) and 48p (peak rate) per minute.

電話每分鐘36便士（優惠費率）和48便士（高峰費率）。

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