She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for nothing, and that a price is always exacted for what fate bestows. 她那時候還太年輕,不知道所有命運贈予的禮物,早已在暗中標好了價格
The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill?
Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: Be an honest man.
The kidnappers exacted ransoms for their hostages.
Her life is scarred by the memory of her mother's death and the terrible revenge she exacted.
He did not know that where the steward pointed out to him in the account book the reduction of rent to one-third in accordance with his will, the Labour exacted had been raised by one half.
Mr Samuelson, an economics columnist for the Washington Post and Newsweek, graphically recounts the futile efforts of various presidents to contain inflation, and the toll they exacted.