英和和英

成句

what price (idiomatic, before a noun phrase)

1. What must be lost or sacrificed to gain ___?

   What price freedom, after so many years of war?

2. What are the chances of ___ succeeding?
   • 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados

     His eyes went to the group of weapons again and the sight gave him a new idea.
     "Aha, what price this?" he cried, and pulling a short sword out of its sheath he drove it in between mask and wall and levered the shell away, nails and all.