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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But we will tell you to your face before the present company that you are a man of vulgar and undeveloped mind; we will openly deny you the right to speak in future of your honour and conscience, for you have not paid the fair price of such a right.
-- 'So that if I cannot now impart all that has tormented me for the last six months, at all events you will understand that, having reached my 'last convictions,' I must have paid a very dear price for them.
-- But on one occasion he explained seriously to Ga-nia that he was no Jew, that he did nothing dishonest, that he could not help the market price of money, that, thanks to his accurate habits, he had already a good footing and was respected, and that his business was flourishing.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was in your tents that I first broke bread on the day when you took me prisoner in the vineyard; after which you sold me away to Lemnos far from my father and my friends, and I brought you the price of a hundred oxen.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, I was glad to avert what was uncommonly near a scuffle, even at the price of the captain's drunken ill-will.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And that is how Mowgli was entered into the Seeonee Wolf Pack for the price of a bull and on Baloo's good word.
-- As soon as he was old enough to understand things, Bagheera told him that he must never touch cattle because he had been bought into the Pack at the price of a bull's life.
-- It was because of this that I paid the price for thee at the Council when thou wast a little naked cub.
-- 'What price for a snake's egg?
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he did not have a chance to speak to him, since, as he entered the common-room, a monk came in with a huge Bible in his arms, mounted a pulpit which was at the end of the room, and began the service which the wretched outcasts had to endure as the price of their lodging.
-- "He'd be a bit surly sometimes, but when we hadn't had a bite since morning, and we hadn't even got the price of a lie down at the Chink's, he'd be as lively as a cricket."
-- Here they made friends with others in as desperate condition as themselves, and when they were penniless and the night was bitter cold, they were glad to borrow from anyone who had earned a stray franc during the day the price of a roof over their heads.
-- She has a bit of property down by Taravao, just before you come to the peninsula, and with copra at the price it is now you could live quite comfortably.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Remember that the price of admission is only sixpence, and that this is an opportunity which may never occur again!'
-- Mrs Jarley sat in the pay-place, chinking silver moneys from noon till night, and solemnly calling upon the crowd to take notice that the price of admission was only sixpence, and that the departure of the whole collection, on a short tour among the Crowned Heads of Europe, was positively fixed for that day week.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were talking about the price of wool when Nekhludoff approached them and asked if that was the jury's room.
-- For this purpose he had decided not to work the land himself, but, by renting it at a low price to the peasants, to make it possible for them to live independent of the landlord.
-- Do you wish the land, and what price do you set on it?"
-- But the German finally arranged the price and time of payment, and the peasants, noisily talking, returned to the village.
-- The price was about thirty per cent.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The house was by this time somewhat cleared of smoke, and we saw at a glance the price we had paid for victory.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The public demanded sharply that the seas should at any price be relieved from this formidable cetacean.
-- "The price of these pearls varies according to their size?"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What price the stockings!"
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