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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am too gratified to get such a mark of your friendship at any price to cavil at the tone.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She has the glassy eyes and innocent air of a trafficker in flesh and blood, who will wax virtuously indignant to obtain a higher price for her services, but who is quite ready to betray a Georges or a Pichegru, if a Georges or a Pichegru were in hiding and still to be betrayed, or for any other expedient that may alleviate her lot.
-- This prudent step had led to success; the foundations of his fortune were laid in the time of the Scarcity (real or artificial), when the price of grain of all kinds rose enormously in Paris.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquire- 19ment of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Bought her I did, and the price has ruined me.
-- Of course, there were empty chairs and babies who would never see their fathers' faces and unmarked graves bylonely Virginia creeks and in the still mountains of Tennessee, but was that too great a price to pay for such a Cause?
-- But there was a heavy price on these scalps.
-- Confederate money had dropped alarmingly and the price of food and clothing had risen accordingly.
-- The cotton mills of England were standing idle and the workers were starving, and any blockader who couldoutwit the Yankee fleet could command his own price in Liverpool.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You would have been disposed of for so many shillings according to the market price of the article, and Dunstable the butcher would have come up to you as you lay in your straw, and he would have whipped you under his left arm, and with his right he would have tucked up his frock to get a penknife from out of his waistcoat-pocket, and he would have shed your blood and had your life.
-- She had no idea what stock she had, or what the price of anything in it was; but there was a little greasy memorandum-book kept in a drawer, which served as a Catalogue of Prices, and by this oracle Biddy arranged all the shop transactions.
-- While I looked about me here, an exceedingly dirty and partially drunk minister of justice asked me if I would like to step in and hear a trial or so: informing me that he could give me a front place for half a crown, whence I should command a full view of the Lord Chief Justice in his wig and robes,--mentioning that awful personage like waxwork, and presently offering him at the reduced price of eighteen-pence.
-- This collation disposed of at a moderate price (considering the grease, which was not charged for), we went back to Barnard's Inn and got my little portmanteau, and then took coach for Hammersmith.
-- When we got back, he had the hardihood to tell me that he wished my sister could have known I had done her so much honor, and to hint that she would have considered it reasonably purchased at the price of her death.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the miser began to beg and promise, and of- 197fered money for his liberty; but he did not come up to the musician's price for some time, and he danced him along brisker and brisker, and the miser bid higher and higher, till at last he offered a round hundred of florins that he had in his purse, and had just gained by cheating some poor fel-low.
-- The same day a customer came in, and the shoes suited him so well that he willingly paid a price higher than usual for them; and the poor shoemaker, with the money, bought leather enough to make two pairs more.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He, who apprehended I could not live a month, was ready enough to part with me, and demanded a thousand pieces of gold, which were ordered him on the spot, each piece being about the bigness of eight hundred moidores; but allowing for the proportion of all things be-tween that country and Europe, and the high price of gold among them, was hardly so great a sum as a thousand guin-eas would be in England.
-- I made bold to tell her majesty, 'that I owed no other obligation to my late master, than his not dashing out the brains of a poor harmless creature, found by chance in his fields: which ob-ligation was amply recompensed, by the gain he had made in showing me through half the kingdom, and the price he had now sold me for.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A thief!A plunderer!A proscribed fugitive, with a price upon his head; a fester and a wound upon the noble character of the Coketown operative!Therefore, my band of brothers in a sacred bond, to which your children and your children's children yet unborn have set their infant hands and seals, I propose to you on the part of the United Aggregate Tribunal, ever watchful for your welfare, ever zealous for your benefit, that this meeting does Resolve: That Stephen Blackpool, weaver, referred to in this placard, having been already solemnly disowned by the community of Coketown Hands, the same are free from the shame of his misdeeds, and cannot as a class be reproached with his dishonest actions!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps it was possible that in his pride--my uncle and a learned professor--he did not like to own that he was wrong in having chosen the eastern tunnel, or was he determined at any price to go to the end of it?
-- An hour after leaving the wood of olives, we reached the fort of San Vicenza, where Hans demanded the price of his thirteenth week of service.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That from the son set forth that Mr Clennam would, he knew, be gratified to hear that he had at length obtained permanent employment of a highly satisfactory nature, accompanied with every prospect of complete success in life; but that the temporary inability of his employer to pay him his arrears of salary to that date (in which condition said employer had appealed to that generous forbearance in which he trusted he should never be wanting towards a fellow-creature), combined with the fraudulent conduct of a false friend and the present high price of provisions, had reduced him to the verge of ruin, unless he could by a quarter before six that evening raise the sum of eight pounds.
-- 'I cannot, therefore, put a price upon services which it is a pleasure to me to render if I can render them spontaneously, but which I could not render in mere return for any consideration.
-- 'No!I will not out of my scanty means for I tell you again, we are poor here, and not rich I will not offer any price for a power that I do not know the worst and the fullest extent of.
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