expense是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 花费， 消费， 消耗，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：
-- Glenarvan, however, would not allow himself to be disheartened; he went back to Talcahuano, and spared neither pains nor expense to make a thorough investigation of the whole seaboard.
-- His companions and he, armed and equipped at the expense of Kara-Tete, began cautiously to descend the slopes of Maunganamu, John Mangles and Wilson leading the way, eyes and ears on the alert.
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 new woman gave him further to understand that though it was absolutely the same to her whom he married, yet she had decided to prevent this marriage for no par-ticular reason, but that she chose to do so, and because she wished to amuse herself at his expense for that it was 'quite her turn to laugh a little now!'
-- 'And won't you be ashamed when they tell you, afterwards, that your wife lived at Totski's expense so many years?'
-- A crowd of eager claimants arose, who cared nothing about any last scion of a noble race undergo-ing treatment in Switzerland, at the expense of the deceased, as a congenital idiot.
-- But I was absolutely amazed at the readiness with which the son had revealed the secret of his birth at the expense of his mother's honour.
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：
-- He would have found me an apartment himself, and lent me furniture did I really mean that I had gone to the expense of buying it? and he would have helped me to move in.
-- I do not consider that the cigars and whisky he consumed at my expense (he always refused cocktails, since he was practically a teetotaller), and the few dollars, borrowed with a civil air of conferring a favour upon me, that passed from my pocket to his, were in any way equivalent to the entertainment he afforded me.
-- Strickland, according to Captain Nichols, did not use exactly the words I have given, but since this book is meant for family reading I have thought it better, at the expense of truth, to put into his mouth expressions familiar to the domestic circle.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Either we are on a continent, and then, at the expense of greater or less fatigue, we shall reach some inhabited place, or we are on an island.
-- He sometimes amused himself at the expense of his little pensioners by tweaking their tails; but this was mischief, and not wickedness, for these little twisted tails a mused him like a plaything, and his instinct was that of a child.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wild young grandson makes answer to this and says, "You're as rich as rich can be; you have been at no uncommon expense on my account, you're saving up piles of money for my little sister that lives with you in a secret, stealthy, hugger-muggering kind of way and with no manner of enjoyment why can't you stand a trifle for your grown-up relation?"
-- Mr Richard Swiveller's apartments were in the neighbourhood of Drury Lane, and in addition to this convenience of situation had the advantage of being over a tobacconist's shop, so that he was enabled to procure a refreshing sneeze at any time by merely stepping out upon the staircase, and was saved the trouble and expense of maintaining a snuff-box.
-- To these impulses must be added the complete ascendancy which his friend had long been accustomed to exercise over him an ascendancy exerted in the beginning sorely at the expense of his friend's vices, and was in nine cases out of ten looked upon as his designing tempter when he was indeed nothing but his thoughtless, light-headed tool.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The clerk smiled, as though he had been thinking of the same thing, and was very glad to hear it, but in reality did not understand it, not because Nekhludoff did not express himself plainly enough, but because, according to this project, Nekhludoff deprived himself of advantages for the benefit of others, whereas the truth that every man strives to obtain advantages at the expense of others, was so firmly rooted in the clerk's mind, that he thought that he misunderstood Nekhludoff when the latter said that the entire income of the land was to go into the community's treasury.
-- Or to transport him, for some reason, at an expense to the government of five hundred roubles, from the District of Tula to the District of Irkutsk, or from Kursk----" "But people seem to fear these journeys at government expense.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And this same widening gulf which is due to the length and expense of the higher educational process and the increased facilities for and temptations towards refined habits on the part of the rich will make that exchange between class and class, that promotion by intermarriage which at present retards the splitting of our species along lines of social stratification, less and less frequent.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Doubtless; but to extract this money the expense would be greater than the profit.
-- or 3脗掳 below zero, but we were warmly clad with fur, at the expense of the sea-bear and seal.
-- More than once I rolled over at the expense of my loins.
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：
-- "Why must you always praise the past, at the expense of the present?
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do let me hear a word about the expense of it."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here was the place where the matter of expense limited the patrons to the moneyed or pleasure-loving class.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here's the law a-standing ready to take a man's son away from him a man's own son, which he has had all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of rais-ing.
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