意思是：权衡得失；
句子实例：
The town is now counting the cost of its failure to provide adequate flood protection.
该镇未采取适当的防洪措施，现在吃到了苦头。
His sudden offer of a job in the suburbs left me no time to count the cost. I soon realized I should never have accepted.
他突然主动提供一份在郊区的工作使我无暇事先权衡得失，事后不久我便意识到我真不该接受它。
