Beauty costs, dear! What do you think of this dress? Do you think it suits me?

亲爱的，美丽是要付出代价的。你觉得这条裙子怎么样，适合我吗？

I had come here and it had cost me dear.

我来到这里，付出了沉重的代价。

Carolyn’s marriage to Pete cost her dear.

【dear】与彼得的婚姻使卡罗琳痛苦不堪。

Phileas Fogg distributed the reward he had promised to the soldiers, while Passepartout, not without reason, muttered to himself, " It must certainly be confessed that I cost my master dear" !

斐利亚·福克把事前许下的奖金分给了士兵。这时路路通一再重复着说：" 说实在的，应当承认，我的主人在我身上花的钱真不少了！" 这倒确实是一句老实话。

" That you may do, " Xaro acknowledged, " but so much caring will cost dear. You will need to pay them far more than I do, and all of Qarth laughs at my ruinous generosity" .

" 您可以试试，" 札罗承认，" 但您需要买到许多关心，代价可是不菲。再说了，我慷慨的程度已经让整个魁尔斯笑话我败家了，而您需要的钱将远远多于当下的支出。"

Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear.

对生活必需品征税，使得无穷无尽的游手好闲的王子和公主部落在目瞪口呆的人群面前愚蠢地排场，他们几乎崇拜让他们付出如此昂贵代价的游行。