A WORD, A WORLD
spend
释义
- v.
- 用；花（时间）；度过；用尽（精力等）
- n.
- 开销
- 网络
- 花费；花钱；浪费
展开详细释义
v.
1.用(钱),花费
2.用钱,花钱;浪费
3.乱花;浪费;过(日子)
4.消磨(时间),度过,过日子;用光,用尽(子弹、气力、财产等);消耗;使筋疲力尽,使极度衰弱;费(很多心血等)
5.泡,消,消磨,消遣;消耗;度过,支配
6.耗尽,用尽,用完;筋疲力尽,极度衰弱
7.投资,使用,用于
8.耗尽,了却,打发,费;破费
9.(鱼等)产卵,下子
10.献出(生命等);【航海】失去(桅)
词形变化
第三人称单数：spends 现在分词：spending 过去分词：spent
常用短语 7 组
- spend oneself
- 精疲力竭，耗尽精力
- spend time
- 花时间；消磨时间
- spend money
- 花钱；破费
- spend on
- 在…方面花费
- spend money on
- 花多少钱买某物
- spend time doing
- 花费时间做……
- spend and be spent
- 出钱又出力 [源自《圣经》]
在例句中理解 32 句
Remember: there is no official upper limit to how much a person can spend in a lifetime.
记住，一个人一生能花多少钱，没有官方上限。
If it's one of your days off, you may find yourself doing nothing because you want to figure out the best way to spend such limited time.
如果今天你休息，你可能发现你什么都没干，因为你想要找出度过如此有限时间的最佳方式。
Then suddenly, she would let her guard down and spend some time pampering herself before a night out with her friends from her hall.
或许会有那么几个晚上放松警惕，给自己一点犒劳，约上朋友，一起出去。
Given how much time we spend on them, maybe a bit more passion about our keyboards from all of us wouldn't go amiss.
鉴于我们每天要与键盘打如此长时间的交道，对键盘的关注超乎寻常一些恐怕不算有毛病吧。
If you know how much money you have left, then you will know how much you can spend.
如果你知道自己还剩多少钱，就会知道可以花多少钱。
But if you let me, I swear, I will spend the rest of my life making it up to you.
但是如果你给我机会，我发誓我会用我的余生来补偿你
I don't need the money as I am married to a lawyer, and I would like to spend more time with the children.
我不需要那份工资（我老公是律师），而且也想多陪陪孩子们。
He used to spend the entire class just sneaking glances at her, admiring her beautiful face, and picturing himself with her.
他曾经花了整节课的时间去偷偷地看她，欣赏她那俊俏的脸庞，幻想着和她在一起。
It would be good to spend time at the beginning making sure we both understand what the design of the different parts might be.
这将是很好的花费在确保我们双方都知道什么样的不同部分的设计可能会开始时间。
But, busy though his official duties may keep him, he said he does not spend much time thinking about being anything but what he is.
但是，忙碌的公事让他身不由己，他说，他很少有时间想自己成为普通人后会是什么样子。
I'm sure that's how he wanted to spend the party, but -- but the future is not going to be the sky-scraping cities of New York, but this.
我能肯定他想要怎样度过聚会，但是--但是未来不会是纽约那样充满摩天大楼的城市，而是这个。
Your to-do list can remind you to spend time with yourself or set aside a few hours a week for your exercise and hobbies.
你的这些清单可以提醒你花些时间独处，或者花些时间锻炼，或者自己的爱好。
He said he believed that to build his fledgling legal business, he needed to spend money on advertising.
他深信如果要建立一家健全的法律咨询公司，他一定要投放大量的资金到广告宣传中去。
The company is so far away from my dorm that I had to spend much time on the way.
公司离我的宿舍太远，我不得不花很多时间在路上。
The company said it had to spend more to lure customers to its newly acquired mobile business from China Unicom.
中国电信说，不得不增加支出以吸引消费者来使用该公司刚刚从中国联通收购的移动业务。
When asked in the interview if he had ever paid a woman to spend the night with him, Berlusconi replied: 'No, naturally.
在采访中被问到他是否曾花钱请女人来和他过夜时，贝鲁斯科尼回答道，当然没有。
Next, define a budget and how much you're willing to spend.
其次，明确下你的预算和你愿意花费的钱。
Dad used to spend hours with his binoculars looking at the ships going by and there was no more fitting tribute that we could think of. . .
爸爸过去常常透过他的望远镜遥望过往的船只，一看就是几个小时。因此，我们再也想不出比这更好的怀念他的方式。
Weekends, or evenings, there's got to be a time that you spend in front of the TV or mindlessly surfing the internet.
周末或者晚上，可能你将会在电视机前看节目或者上网。
Yesterday, I chartered a sailboat so my family and I could spend a couple of hours out on the waters off Nantucket.
昨天，我租了一条帆船，这样，我和我的家人就可以离开楠塔基特岛，出海玩几个小时了。
She told me that she would often spend a whole morning working upon a single page.
她对我说，她往往要花整整一个上午来修改一页稿子。
Quiz for the day: How much time each day, on average, does a 6- to 12-year-old child spend on household chores?
先作个小测验：6至12岁的孩子平均每天做多长时间的家务劳动？
She seems to spend heR life trying to cultivate heR career.
她的一生似乎都在成就其事业。
It was a great privilege for me to be able to spend so much time with him down here.
能跟他在这里相处这么久，对我真是莫大的幸运。
Despite economic uncertainties and effects of the recession, consumers have continued to spend a lot of money online.
尽管有经济不确定性和经济衰退的影响，消费者继续花费大量的金钱进行网上消费。
Moseley was taken aback; he said he wanted to spend time fact-finding first.
莫斯利措手不及；他说他需要先花时间进行实地调查。
Did not say too much words, we arm in arm, as it is, to spend the whole day with you.
没有说过太多的话，我们肩并着肩，因为，是和你度过的一天。
lifestyle, rather than how much you can afford to spend on products.
健康取决于生活方式，而不是你够花多少钱在美容商品上。
Ask about their expectations. Find out how much time your child should spend on homework each night.
了解他们对孩子的期望，还要了解孩子每晚的家庭作业应规定在多长时间内完成。
Companies across Asia say they are cutting back on how much they spend on consultants, in response to head office demands to contain costs.
亚洲各地的公司表示，为了响应总部控制成本的要求，它们正在削减花在咨询上的经费。
I can’t afford to spend any more money this week.
这星期我没有能力花更多的钱了。
The repairs cost a lot, but it’s money well spent (= a sensible way of spending money ) .
修理费很高，但这是该花的钱。