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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He says that at any price we must hold out till daybreak.
-- Nor could he find it in his heart to insist, when the Indian, smiling as usual, would not accept the price of his services, pushing back the money, and saying:"For the sake of friendship."
-- The products of Hottam Station fetched the very highest price in the markets of Castlemaine and Melbourne.
-- His name was well known to the English soldiers, and a price had been set on his head by the governor of New Zealand.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With his brutal and violent nature, others would have to pay the price if we held our hands.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This is quite a coincidence,' thought he, and when the subject of price was mentioned, he made a gesture with his hand, as if to waive away a ques-tion of so little importance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This box can never bring, elsewhere, the price it will bring here.
-- And as to its not bringing me, elsewhere, the price it will bring here, say then, madame, have you limited and settled the price the little niece will give for his sake to hush it up?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a People's Course, the lecture on the Pyramids, and Jo rather wondered at the choice of such a subject for such an audience, but took it for granted that some great social evil would be remedied or some great want supplied by un-folding the glories of the Pharaohs to an audience whose thoughts were busy with the price of coal and flour, and whose lives were spent in trying to solve harder riddles than that of the Sphinx.
-- And when he read his paper of an evening, Demi's colic got into the shipping list and Daisy's fall affected the price of stocks, for Mrs. Brooke was only interested in domestic news.
-- CHAPTER FORTY-SEVENFor a year Jo and her Professor worked and waited, hoped and loved, met occasionally, and wrote such voluminous letters that the rise in the price of paper was accounted for, Laurie said.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and she co-loured at the idea; but, recovering herself, said in a lively tone, 'And pray, what is the usual price of an earl's younger son?
-- She related the subjects of the pictures, the dimen-sions of the rooms, and the price of the furniture, in vain, Mr. Gardiner, highly amused by the kind of family preju-dice to which he attributed her excessive commendation of her master, soon led again to the subject; and she dwelt with energy on his many merits as they proceeded together up the great staircase.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him he had been so generous to me in everything that I could not offer to make any price of the boat, but left it entirely to him: upon which he told me he would give me a note of hand to pay me eighty pieces of eight for it at Brazil; and when it came there, if any one offered to give more, he would make it up.
-- and though it had cost us something more, yet the difference of that price was by no means worth saving at so great a hazard.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing escaped HER minute observation and general curiosity; she saw every thing, and asked every thing; was never easy till she knew the price of every part of Marianne's dress; could have guessed the number of her gowns altogether with better judgment than Marianne herself, and was not without hopes of finding out before they parted, how much her washing cost per week, and how much she had every year to spend upon herself.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While the appearance of the shop and the announcement of the price paid per week operated very much as a blow to Carrie's fancy, the fact that work of any kind was offered after so rude a round of experience was gratifying.
-- "Say, mister," said a voice at Hurstwood's side, "would you mind giving me the price of a bed?"
-- Carrie noticed this, and in scanning it the price of spring chicken carried her back to that other bill of fare and far different occasion when, for the first time, she sat with Drouet in a good restaurant in Chicago.
-- Chapter XLV CURIOUS SHIFTS OF THE POOR The gloomy Hurstwood, sitting in his cheap hotel, where he had taken refuge with seventy dollars--the price of his furniture-- between him and nothing, saw a hot summer out and a cool fall in, reading.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The price of the paper was two dollars a year, but he took in three subscriptions for half a dollar apiece on con- dition of them paying him in advance; they were going to pay in cordwood and onions as usual, but he said he had just bought the concern and knocked down the price as low as he could afford it, and was going to run it for cash.
-- I'm on the waw-path, and the price uv coffins is a-gwyne to raise.'
-- My heart fell down amongst my lungs and livers and things, and a hard piece of corn-crust started down my throat after it and got met on the road with a cough, and was shot across the table, and took one of the children in the eye and curled him up like a fishing-worm, and let a cry out of him the size of a warwhoop, and Tom he turned kinder blue around the gills, and it all amounted to a considerable state of things for about a quarter of a minute or as much as that, and I would a sold out for half price if there was a bidder.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "For the price of four pennies, I'll sell you my coat."
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