price是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 价格， 价钱； 代价v. 标价，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Name the price that you put YOUR prayers at!'
-- He knew beforehand what the price of his luxury was; he has paid the price.'
-- Here he paid a heavy price for his escort, and hence he started with it on the wet, wet roads at three o'clock in the morning.
-- A man don't see all this here a goin' on dreadful round him, in the way of Subjects with-439out heads, dear me, plentiful enough fur to bring the price down to porterage and hardly that, without havin' his seri-ous thoughts of things.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That swine-herd must certainly have been well educated!Go in and ask him the price of the instrument.'
-- 'I have never heard prettier compositions!Go in and ask 12 Andersen's Fairy Taleshim the price of the instrument; but mind, he shall have no more kisses!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something awful and revolting in the memory of what had been bought at this fearful price of shame.
-- The price is magnificent; thirty-eight thousand.
-- "He came to me too late, or I'd have fixed the price for him."
-- In was bargaining for some wheat of him, and a pretty price In offered too."
-- When Levin took over the management of the estate, he thought on examining the grasslands that they were worth more, and he fixed the price at twenty-five roubles the three acres.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Returning to the Indian, whose small, sharp eyes, glistening with avarice, betrayed that with him it was only a question of how great a price he could obtain.
-- The train was about to start from Allahabad, and Mr. Fogg proceeded to pay the guide the price agreed upon for his service, and not a farthing more; which astonished Passepartout, who remembered all that his master owed to the guide's devotion.
-- Phileas Fogg, after paying the stipulated price of his passage to John Busby, and rewarding that worthy with the additional sum of five hundred and fifty pounds, ascended the steamer with Aouda and Fix; and they started at once for Nagasaki and Yokohama.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He paid, in fact, an enormous price for looking at Orchid's lips, and no amount of anxiety about the price kept him from looking at them.
-- Martin had found, for the first time since marriage, a house in which he was altogether happy; Leora had found, in a woman with the easy smartness which she had always feared and hated, the first woman to whom she could talk of God and the price of toweling.
-- Martin had heard about the superiority of poverty to luxury, but after the lunch-wagons of Mohalis, after twelve years of helping Leora check the laundry and worry about the price of steak, after a life of waiting in the slush for trolleys, it was not at all dismaying to have a valet who produced shirts automatically; not at all degrading to come to meals which were always interesting, and, in the discretion of his car, to lean an aching head against softness and think how clever he was.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She undertook such jobs and was frequently employed, as she was very honest and always fixed a fair price and stuck to it.
-- Come, price them!What do you say?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in thenewspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas.
-- No!No price couldmake it do.
-- I think of thenumber of yards of net in Miss Murdstone's cap, or of the price ofMr. Murdstone's dressing-gown, or any such ridiculous problemthat I have no business with, and don't want to have anything at allto do with.
-- 'Twopence-halfpenny,' says the landlord, 'is the price of theGenuine Stunning ale.'
-- Ibegan to picture to myself, as a scrap of newspaper intelligence,my being found dead in a day or two, under some hedge; and Itrudged on miserably, though as fast as I could, until I happened topass a little shop, where it was written up that ladies andgentlemen's wardrobes were bought, and that the best price wasgiven for rags, bones, and kitchen-stuff.
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