cost
英 [k?st]
美[k?st]
- 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
考試真題
- Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- The cost for saving our civilization would be considerably less than the world's current military spending.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- The concept has multiple forms, and scholars and policymakers argue about the shape, scope and cost of the ideal program.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- For many in the development community, the four objectives were seen as positive, promoting development as long as they did not cost too much.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Manufacturers can produce consumer goods at a much lower cost.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Facing an 8.3-billion-dollar budget deficit this year, closing post offices is one of several proposals the Postal Service has put forth recently to cut costs.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- A part-time job is a good way to balance costs while ensuring there is enough time left over?for both academic subjects and after-class activities.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- To help quantify ( ' , 量化 ) the costs of a poor diet, I recently tried to estimate this impact in terms of a most famous food, the burger ( ' , 漢堡包 ).
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- ConAgra’s Research and Development staff spent a year working under the instruction: whatever the cost, don’t sacrifice taste.
出自-2015年12月聽力原文
- But the code to access the program cost $120—a big sum for Harper, who had already put down $450 for textbooks, and had rent day approaching.
2018年6月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- But this can be chalked up to the excessively high cost of their books—which has increased over 1, 000 percent since 1977.
2019年12月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- Changing building codes, evolving tastes, and the high cost of maintaining those wonderful old signs have businesses embracing LEDs, which are energy efficient, but still carry great cost.
2018年6月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section A
- ConAgra's Research and Development staff spent a year working under the instruction: whatever the cost, don't sacrifice taste.
2015年12月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- Even when they stay on the right side of the law, Internet providers arouse customers' anger over bandwidth speed and cost.
2017年6月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section A
- He has a lot of experience with boats, and it'll work out a lot cheaper to hire one if there's more of us to share the cost.
2017年12月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section B
- If I stayed in the U.S., it'd take two years and cost at least 50,000 dollars in tuition alone.
2019年6月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section B
- In 2018 alone, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, mudslides, and other natural disasters cost at least $49 billion in the United States.
2019年12月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- On the other hand, imagine the cost savings for local police enforcement and town budgets without all those speeding and parking tickets.
2018年12月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- The aircraft cost 25 million pounds and can carry heavier loads than huge jet planes while also producing less noise and emitting less pollution.
2018年6月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section A
- This help is critically important because the high cost of caring for animal victims is a major factor that prevents people from getting involved in cruelty cases in the first place.
2016年12月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section A
- This means that some wells may even need to undergo desalination after extraction, thus increasing the cost.
2018年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- This will cover the cost of making all 12 shows in the first season for the first year.
2019年12月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section B
- While alternative estimates of the damage from carbon emissions differ, and it's especially hard to reckon the likely costs of possible catastrophic climate events, most estimates suggest substantial negative effects.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- These math circles cost nothing, or they're very cheap for students to get involved in, but you have to know about them, said Rusczyk.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Students use forums to chat, play games, and solve problems together at no cost, or they can pay a few hundred dollars to take courses with trained teachers.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Some are pricey—a three-week intensive program can cost $4,500 or more—but most offer scholarships.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Setting the right carbon price will therefore efficiently align the costs paid by carbon users with the true social opportunity cost of using carbon.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- It is urgent for governments to increase the cost of using fossil fuels to an appropriate level to lessen the catastrophic effects of climate change.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Facilities management by colleges is more cost-effective.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral ( ' , 附帶的) costs.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system—doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness—is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs, are treated properly.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- The high cost of medical services and unnecessary tests and treatments have driven up medical expenses.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- The good news is that a bill just approved by the House and a bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee would implement or test many reforms that should help slow the rise in medical costs over the long term.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- The average budget for a major kitchen overhaul in 2006, calculates Remodeling magazine, was a staggering $54,000; even a minor improvement cost on average $18,000.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- The answer is that no one has an easy fix for rising medical costs.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- The Senate Finance bill would impose an excise tax ( ' , 消費稅) on health insurance plans that cost more than $8,000 for an individual or $21,000 for a family.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Poor countries will have to bear the cost for rich nations' economic development.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Missing from these bills is any serious attempt to rein in malpractice costs.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- It is not easy to curb the rising medical costs in America.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- In time it should help restrain costs by eliminating redundant tests, preventing drug interactions, and helping doctors find the best treatments.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- If private plans demanded similar productivity savings from providers, and refused to let providers shift additional costs to them, the savings could be much larger.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下 水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson&Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian-style one which would cost ￡145,000-155,000— excluding building, plumbing and electrical work.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Americans are deeply concerned about the relentless rise in health care costs and health insurance premiums.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate free-riders: causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while incurring few of the costs such as climate change's impact on food and water.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- The solution: set priorities—add up the annual cost of each item, then consider what else you could buy with the same money.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- One Chicago woman, for example, discovered that daily lunches with coworkers cost her 2,000 dollars a year.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- While that may make suborbital travel safer, it would add significant cost and complexity to an emerging industry that has until now operated largely as the playground of billionaires and dreamy engineers.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- They have to operate for long periods of time before the costs of development have been recovered.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- Take costs into account when making treatment decisions.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- Some analysts say that there's a role for doctors to play in cost analysis because not many others are doing so.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- Saying they can no longer ignore the rising prices of health care, some of the most influential medical groups in the nation are recommending that doctors weigh the costs, not just the effectiveness of treatments, as they make decisions about patient care.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- Like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- In the extreme, some critics have said that making treatment decisions based on cost is a form of rationing.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- In practical terms, the new guidelines being develop could result in doctors choosing one drug over another for cost reasons or even deciding that a particular treatment — at the end of life, for example — is too expensive.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- But one costs $50 a dose and the other close to $2,000.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- "The sun provides the lowest cost of production and the cheapest meat," he says.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- "These math circles cost nothing, or they're very cheap for students to get involved in, but you have to know about them," said Rusczyk.
2017年6月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- and some parents say they can manage the cost of a school trip abroad more easily than a family holiday.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- But Smith counters that if you factor in the hidden cost of government corn subsidies, environment degradation, and decreased human heath and animal welfare, grass-fed is the more cost-effective model.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- Either a college major is worth its cost or it isn't.
2018年6月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson&Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian style one which would cost ￡145,000-155,000—excluding building, plumbing and electrical w
2016年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- For instance, a research group here at Arizona State University recently claimed their developmental small CubeSats could cost as little as $3, 000 to put in orbit.
2019年6月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- For instance, there's a high energy cost in switching from a regular metabolism to an almost-no-water metabolism.
2018年6月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- However, as the cost of getting your own satellite in orbit drops sharply, the risks of irresponsible use grow.
2019年6月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- If taxpayers are to bear the cost of forgiving student loans, shouldn't they have a say in how their money is used?
2018年6月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- In fact, cost sharing could be a very practical solution, especially in times of financial difficulty.
2016年12月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- In the extreme, some critics have said that making treatment decisions based on cost is a form of rationing .
2015年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- It has consequences: South Africa's ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its com crop this year.
2018年6月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- Maybe you see low customer participation at first, or conversely, so much success that the cost of recycling becomes too high.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- Now, the only apparent cost to taking infinite photos of something as common as a meal is the space on your hard drive and your dining companion's patience.
2018年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
- One should buy the policies to give the most protection at the least cost, ensure the right family members and consider the family's financial needs.
2017年12月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- Some are pricey—a three-week intensive program can cost $4, 500 or more—but most offer scholarships.
2017年6月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- Still, some analysts say that there's a role for doctors to play in cost analysis because not many others are doing so.
2015年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- Stress is taking a significant toll on our health, and the collective public health cost may be enormous.
2016年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- The average budget for a "major" kitchen overhaul in 2006, calculates Remodeling magazine, was a staggering $54, 000; even a "minor" improvement cost on average$18, 000.
2016年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- The biggest and most exciting challenge of this technology is how to creatively leverage this ever-growing amount of data to deliver cost savings, improvements and tangible benefits to both businesses and citizens of these smart cities.
2017年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal c
2017年6月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- The Senate finance bill would impose an excise tax(消費稅) on health insurance plans that cost more than $8, 000 for an individual or $21, 000 for a family.
2016年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs
2016年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- This decrease in cost allows researchers, hobbyists and even elementary school groups to put simple instruments into LEO or even having them deployed from the ISS.
2019年6月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system— doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness — is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.
2016年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- Yet, she noted, many young people are especially unwilling to take risks at school—afraid that one low test score or poor grade could cost them a spot at a selective university.
2018年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B
- A cup of coffee costs about three dollars and fifty cents, but the fun is free.
2015年高考英語上海卷 聽力 原文
- After having taught fifth-grade classes for four years, I decided to try all costs to rid them of their fear and dislike of books, and to get them to read oftener and more adventurously.
2015年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- Callie Babbitt and her colleagues at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York tracked the environmental costs for each product throughout its life – from when its minerals are mined to when we stop using the device.
2018年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Many studies show that older parents—today's grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.
2015年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- From the governments' point of view, a primary goal of laws requiring extended producer responsibility is to transfer both the cost and the physical responsibility of waste management from the government and tax-payers back to the producers.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- How much does the t-shirt normally cost?
2015年高考英語湖南卷 聽力 題設
- I have $20, 000 now, and the car costs $25, 000.
2017年高考英語全國卷2 聽力 原文
- In a society that tends to measure everything in terms of dollars and cents, we learn form a young age to consider the costs of our decisions in financial terms.
2015年高考英語浙江卷 完形填空 原文
- It costs 150 dollars, and you can drive straight from the airport to your house.
2017年高考英語北京卷 聽力 原文
- It costs a large amount of money.
2015年高考英語湖北卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 選項
- It's expected to cost $279, 000.
2017年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- More broadly the Wakefield survey suggests that employers may be missing a low-cost way to give workers something of value.
2016年高考英語浙江卷（10月） 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- My trip to the repair shop cost me $62, and the sit is working well now, but I keep expecting more trouble.
2015年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- Or, maybe all I would find was absolutely nothing! But something inside me was going to climb that mountain at all cost.
2018年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀表達 原文
- Researchers from georgia tech say that they have come up with a low-cost device裝置that gets around this problem: a smart keyboard.
2019年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- So by increasing their song output, there might be some costs of energy.
2015年高考英語四川卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- The basket cost more than she had saved.
2016年高考英語浙江卷（6月） 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項
- The cost of adaptation varies with time.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項
- The cost to repair it was estimated at $800.
2016年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- The disadvantages of large human brains ·the larger brains may not be better because of the cost.
2019年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 任務型閱讀 題設
- The first commercially available driverless cars will almost certainly be fielded by ride-hailing services, considering the cost of self-driving technology as well as liability and maintenance issues.
2018年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- The industry cost might be increased.
2015年高考英語四川卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項
- There could be an even higher cost on your health.
2018年高考英語浙江卷 語法填空 原文
- They can purchase shade-grown coffee whenever possible, although at a higher cost.
2015年高考英語陜西卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- They cost more to use at home.
2018年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項
- They made reservations at restaurants where the cost of a bottle of wine equaled a college year's monthly rent.
2015年高考英語浙江卷 完形填空 原文
- This brief visit with mother nature cost me two days off from work, recovering from a bad case of sunburn and the doctor's bill for my son's food poisoning.
2017年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 七選五 原文
- While regularly eating out seems to have become common for many young people in recent years, it's not without a cost.
2018年高考英語浙江卷 語法填空 原文
- As the cost to everyone else has become clearer, politicians have begun to clamp down.
出自-2012年考研閱讀原文
- The other reason why costs are so high is the restrictive guild-like ownership structure of the business.
出自-2014年考研閱讀原文
- One is the excessive costs of a legal education.
出自-2014年考研閱讀原文
- In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms’ efficiency.
出自-2014年考研閱讀原文
- Getting the print edition seven days a week costs $500 a year—more than twice as much as a digital-only subscription.
出自-2016年考研閱讀原文
- But Congress should look into doing so directly, by helping to finance PreCheck enrollment or to cut costs in other ways.
出自-2017年考研閱讀原文
- There's no change to collective bargaining at the USPS, a major omission considering that personnel accounts for 80 percent of the agency's costs.
出自-2018年考研閱讀原文
- Meanwhile, it has more than $120 billion in unfunded liabilities, mostly for employee health and retirement costs.
出自-2018年考研閱讀原文
- In December of 1869, Congress appointed a commission to select a site and prepare plans and cost estimates for a new State Department Building.
出自-2018年考研閱讀原文
- It cost less than a fiver but she was overjoyed, and couldn't stop talking about it.
2016年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Stop laughing: It's not just cost effective but helps you balance your diet.
2013年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- The cost of solar panels has dropped by 80 percent and the cost of wind turbines by close to one-third in the past eight years.
2018年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- The Supreme Court's opinion Thursday overruled a pair of decades-old decisions that states said cost them billions of dollars in lost revenue annually.
2020年考研真題（英語一）翻譯 Section Ⅲ
- This might mean implementing policy such as a plastic tax that adds a cost to environmentally problematic action, or banning single-use plastics altogether.
2019年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ