Question

有It costs sb. sometime/somemoney to do sth.吗？请举例说明。谢谢！

Answer 1

没有此结构。
有
it takes/took/will take sb some time to do something
It took her a month to finish reading her book.
something cost sb some money
The car cost him 10,000 dollars.

追问

那请问有（doing）sth. costs sb. sometime/somemoney吗？
我知道有It takes sb. sometime to do sth.
那有doing sth. takes sb. sometime吗?
请举例说明。太谢谢了！

追答

cost一般是不用于时间的。

(doing的少见）sth cost sb some money是有的。
To do sth takes sb some time也是有的。

追问

请问doing sth. takes sb. sometime对吗？

追答

some time不是sometime
doing sth. takes sb. some time

如果有这个结构，那就没有
It takes sb some time to do sth了
所以，没。

追问

可是我们书上有一句“Shopping usually takes a lot of time.”为什么这时用doing呢？

追答

这个就不是take sb some time
而是take some time
这倒是可以用的。
一般情况下
it takes (sb) some time to do something
=To do sth takes (sb) some time.（不是很常见）
(doing) sth takes )sb) some time也是可以的。
看例句吧：
Since the roads are very bad, the trip took us a long time.
由于道路很差，这次旅程花费了我们很长时间。
I had heard an appeal could take years.
我已听说一项诉讼可能要花费好几年时间。
The sauce takes 25 minutes to prepare and cook.
从准备到烹制成这种调味汁需要25分钟。
It takes 15 minutes to convert the plane into a car by removing the wings and the tail.
拆除机翼和机尾，把那架飞机改成汽车需要15分钟的时间。

追问

您说了“(doing) sth takes （sb) some time也是可以的。”
那是说doing sth. takes sb. some time也可以了？可好像跟您前面说的不一样，那是可以还是不可以呢？

追答

从例子来看是可以的。