1. "I spent $20 but (they) looked like I paid 60 or 70 dollars," says one customer.
    "我付了20美元，但（买的玫瑰）看上去好像我付了六七十美元似的，"有一位顾客说。

2. After a one-hour flight the next morning, we spent the day visiting attractions along with hundreds of other tourists,
    第二天早晨，坐了一个小时飞机后，我们当天就与其他数以百计的游客一起，参观了一些景点。

3. A survey in Holland showed that a typical father spent just 11 seconds a day in conversation with his children.
    在荷兰进行的调查表明，父亲们一般每天用于与孩子交谈的时间只有11秒钟。

4. You've spent your life almost always surrounded by people, in classes, in residences and at work.
    突然间你却发现你整天只能与你的猫聊天，这种情况会改变你对现实的认识。

5. She spent the next ten months on the Gambia River, slaving.
    接着她在冈比亚河流域呆了10个月，贩运奴隶。

6. Some customers say the high quality of the roses makes them look as if they spent a fortune.
    有些顾客说，上乘的玫瑰使他们看上去像是花了大价钱。

7. Many of the cars broke down on the course and some drivers spent more time under their cars than in them!
    很多汽车在途中就抛了锚，而有些驾驶员花在汽车底下的时间比坐在汽车里面的时间还长。

8. “Instead, you have spent an exceedingly dull evening at the opera with a fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only an ordinary telephone call making an appointment in his room.
    "然而，你却在歌剧院里陪着个胖子打发了一个极度无聊的夜晚。根本没有什么黑眸美女偷偷将情报塞到他手里，他只是接了一个普通的电话，约在他住的地方见面。

9. But more often than not, the greater part of the journey is spent on roads with few service stations and too much traffic.
    但旅行的大部分时间都花在路上，而且只有很少的服务设施，交通也很拥挤。

10. Last summer I spent days in the garden watching thousands of ants crawling up the trunk of my prize peach tree.
    去年夏天，我花了好几天时间站在花园里观察成千只蚂蚁爬上我那棵心爱的桃树的树干。