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spend

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v.花费,消耗,用尽 vt.度过,消磨

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spend为小学词汇   词频:419

词形变化:

动词过去式:spent 过去分词:spent 现在分词:spending 第三人称单数:spends 名词:spender 形容词:spendable

词根

pend,pens=to hang(悬挂),to weigh(衡量)

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consume  exhaust  expend  finish-off  lay-out  pay-out  use  earn    

spend


/spend; spɛnd/
v (pt, pp spent / spent; spZnt/)
1 [I, Tn, Tn.pr] ~ sth (on/sth) give or pay out (money) for goods, services, etc 用(钱); 花(钱)
*He spends as if he were a millionaire. 他用起钱来像个百万富翁似的.
* She's spent all her money. 她把钱都花光了.
* He spends too much (money) on clothes. 他在衣着上花费太大.
2 [Tn, Tn.pr] ~ sth (on sth/in doing sth)
(a) use (time, etc) for a purpose 花(时间等)
*spend a lot of time on a project/(in) explaining a plan 花很多时间进行某项目[解释某方案]
* spend one's energy cleaning the place up 用力气把那地方打扫乾净.
(b) use sth up; exhaust sth 用完, 耗尽(某物)
*The blizzard quickly spent itself, ie used up all its force. 暴风雪很快就停了下来.
* They went on firing until they had spent all their ammunition. 他们不停地射击, 耗尽了所有的弹药.
* I've spent all my energy on this. 我对此事已呕尽心血.
3 [Tn, Tn.pr] pass (time) 度过, 消磨(时间)
*How do you spend your spare time? 你业余时间怎么打发?
* spend a weekend in Paris 在巴黎过周末
* spend summer holidays by the sea 在海滨过暑假.
4 (idm 习语) spend the `night with sb (euph 婉) sleep for a night in the same bed as and have sexual intercourse with sb to whom one is not married 跟某人过一夜(与非配偶同床并发生性行为). spend a`penny (infml euph 口, 婉) go to the toilet; urinate 去厕所; 解小便
*I'm just going to spend a penny. 我要去厕所.

spend


v past tense and past participlespent [spent/
1. Every summer about a dozen journalists gather at a former army training camp north of London to spend the day watching the training of London's special armed police unit.
    每年夏天,总有大约十几名记者聚集在伦敦北部的一个旧军训营,用一整天来观看伦敦特警部队的训练。

2. But if we spend all that money we´ll be poor again.
    但是如果我们把所有钱都花光了,我们又会变穷的。

3. C.You try to spend less and plan good menus anyway.
    c.你试着少花钱,并无论如何要设法安排好菜单。

4. But Roses Only's prices encourage people to spend.
    但是"惟一玫瑰"花店的价格却鼓励人们多买。

5. Where are you going to spend your holidays this year, Gary?
    加里,今年你们打算去哪里度假?

6. We´re going to spend three days in the country.
    我们打算到乡下去三天,

7. We never had so much to spend before.
    我们以前从没有这么多的钱可花。

8. If it (whatever it may be) won't compute and you can't drink it, smoke it or spend it, then "it" holds little value.
    学生们认为如果某种东西 (不管它是何物) 没有实际的经济意义,你不能把它当酒喝、当烟抽、当钱花,那么 "它" 就简直毫无价值。

9. Women spend their lives accepting the idea that to be beautiful one must be young, and only beauty saves one from being discarded.
    女人毕其一生接受了这个观点,那就是要想漂亮就得年青,只有漂亮才不致被弃。

10. The greater part of the journey is spend on narrow, bumpy roads which are crowded with traffic.
    大部分旅程常常要消靡在狭窄、坎坷不平而且车辆拥挤的道路上。

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