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Cost Latin French English Literally Verb Vulgar Coster

正面 551.cost
英 [kɒst]美 [kɔst]

背面
释义:
vt. 花费;使付出;使花许多钱n. 费用,代价,成本;损失vi. 花费n. (Cost)人名;(英、罗)科斯特
例句:
1. Companies are moving jobs to towns with a lower cost of living.各公司正在把工作岗位转移至生活费用较低的城镇。

oil.............哦 油..................油oil 油——熬油联想:买油就是为了“熬油”。
cost 成本co-, 强调。-st, 站。字面意思即站在旁边的,要求投入的。
costcost: [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, statuecost (n.)c. 1200, from Old French cost (12c., Modern French coût) "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 coûter) "to cost," from cost (see cost (n.))."

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