spend

英[spend]美[spend]

v.花钱，消耗；

n.花费；

复数：spends;

第三人称单数：spends;

过去式：spent;

过去分词：spent;

现在分词：spending;

例句

He doesn't spend much time on his homework.他花在作业上的时间不多。

Have you decided on where you'll spend your holidays?你是否已经决定到什么地方去度假?

You spend too much time moping around the house.你闲居的时间太多了。

Don’t forget to keep a careful tally of what you spend.别忘了仔细记下你的开支账目。

They spend an unreasonable amount of money on clothes.他们花在衣服上的钱太多了。

It was quite a novelty to spend my holidays working on a boat.在船上工作来度过我的假期是件相当新奇的事。

She proposed to spend some time with her friends in China.她打算与她的朋友一起在中国玩些日子。

This phenomenon, sometimes called wanderlust, may explain why people spend so much time and money on trips to interesting places.这种现象，有时叫做旅游癖，可以用来解释为什么人们会把那么多时间和金钱花在有趣的旅游场所。

Every penny was hard earned,and every shilling was kept until I had to spend it.每个便士都那么难挣,对于每个先令,都是到万不得已时才花掉它。

I was wondering where to spend the weekend.我想知道在何处度这个周末。

英语六级真题

While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.

While Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday all saw record spending online, in-store sales plunged over the holiday weekend.

They have seriously polluted the places where birds spend winter.

There are usually two parents, who spend a lot of time reading to children and worrying about their anxiety levels and hectic schedules.

The summer after 7th grade, students spend three weeks on a college campus studying advanced math for seven hours a day.

The college spending analysis justifies the outsourcing plan.

Tennessee's technical and community colleges will not outsource ( ' , 外包) management of their facilities to a private company, a decision one leader said was bolstered by an analysis of spending at each campus.

Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.

Meanwhile, Macy's has simply struggled to lure consumers who are more interested in spending on travel or dining out than on new clothes or accessories.

Its flagship stores in major U.S. cities depend heavily on international tourist spending, which shrank at many retailers due to a strong dollar.

It is backed by a campus spending analysis.

In poor families, meanwhile, children tend to spend their time at home or with extended family.

In an email sent Monday to college presidents in the Tennessee Board of Regents system, outgoing Chancellor John Morgan said an internal analysis showed that each campus' spending on facilities management fell well below the industry standards identified by the state.

Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute found that birds following traditional migration routes were more likely to die than German storks that flew only as far as northern Morocco, and spent the winter there on rubbish dumps.

Can you tell us how you first became interested in this subject matter?( ' , 9 ) Wh e n f a c i n g a n e w situation, some people tend to rehearse their defeat by spending too much time anticipating the worst.

They have to spend lots of time choosing products.

The money spent on kitchens has risen with their status.

The amount spent on interactive advertising on television is still small.

Spending fell by 10% in the first half of the year.

Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.

Is surgery, radiation or careful monitoring best for prostate ( ' , 前列腺) cancer? Is the latest and most expensive cholesterol-lowering drug any better than its common competitors? The pending bills would spend additional money to accelerate this effort.

But overall, we suspect that spending would come down through elimination of a lot of unnecessary or even dangerous tests and treatments.

We need more funding and more effort to return these languages to everyday use, says Fred Nowuski of the National Museum of the American Indian, We are making progress but money needs to be spent on revitalising languages, not just documenting them.

Today, the average American spends 8.

There is no clarification of how the money will be spent.

For the study, 325 employees spent six months taking part in ROWE, while a control group of 334 employees continued with their normal workflow.

But now these segments are looking at slower growth curves – or shrinking markets in some cases – as consumers are not as eager to spend money on new gadgets.

Bearded Russian priests offer regular services at the Orthodox church for the 16 or so Russian speakers who spend the winter at the base, largely polar scientists in fields like glaciology and meteorology.

And 29%, the invisible risk group, scored high on three in particular: They spent five hours a day or more on electronic devices.

8 hours at work daily, and the majority of working professionals spend additional hours checking in with work during evenings, weekends and even vacations.

And the New Yorkers who spent a bundle on an outdoor hot tub now admit they rarely use it, because we can’t afford to heat it in winter.

They spend a lot of time building strong connections with businesses.

The shift, little noticed outside the medical establishment but already controversial inside it, suggests that doctors are starting to redefine their roles, from being concerned exclusively about individual patients to exerting influence on how healthcare dollars are spent.

Students who take more challenging classes and spend more time studying do learn more.

Per-capita local government spendingIn other words, communities with high levels of per-capita income growth, high percentages of two-parent families, and high local government spending—which may stand for good schools— are the most likely to help poor children relive Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches story.

Although going to college is supposed to be a full-time job, students spent.

"She was a scientist on the level with a lot of people we spend a lot of time talking about," said Kay Etheridge, a biologist at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania who has been studying the scientific history of Merian's work. "She didn't do as much to ch

And cutting the working week would be conducive to the individual, giving millions of workers more time to spend as they see fit.

And these big food corporations have so much money to spend on clever tactic design to make young children want to buy their products.

At 62, you continue to spend a large percentage of your life touring.

Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago.

But now these segments are looking at slower growth curves – or shrinking markets in some cases – as consumers are not as eager to spend money on new gadgets.

But that doesn't mean that all students will do amazingly, if they just spend all their time reading from a textbook.

I spend most of my time studying the big bang theory and where our universe came from.

Instead, Rodriguez solicits residents' advice on what he should get on his cheeseburger and how he should spend the afternoon.

Pipitone claims that healthy adults need not spend money on protein supplements.

She found she did spend a lot less money because it is incredibly hard to predict how much cash one is going to need—she was forever drawing money out of Cashpoints.

The children spend longer watching the video showing the researcher they hadn't met.

The concern seems to be that open advocates don't spend their time being as productive as possible.

The pending bills would spend additional money to accelerate this effort.

They just ask for one questionnaire to be sent out, for example, so the time you spend on an ad-hoc project tends to be fairly short.

Today, the average American spends 8.8 hours at work daily, and the majority of working professionals spend additional hours checking in with work during evenings, weekends and even vacations.

Try to not have lunch at your desk, but instead spend time outside or with your friends一not talking about work.

We "stop" work sometimes at 5 pm, but then we spend the night wrestling with solutions to work problems, talking about our work over dimer, and falling asleep thinking about how much work we'll do tomorrow.

We may instead find ourselves feeling guilty about the time we didn't spend watching our children grow all with our loved ones, or travelling or on the cultural or leisure suits that bring us happiness.

We spend a great deal of time studying history, Hawking said, which, let's face it, is mostly the history of stupidity.

We spend our days looking at ideas from journalists, writing copy for the magazine and website and editing.

We're unlikely to spend our last moments regretting that we didn't spend enough of our lives slaving away at work.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

VERB

花(钱);用(钱)

When you spend money, you pay money for things that you want.

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VERB

花费(时间或精力)

If you spend time or energy doing something, you use your time or effort doing it.

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VERB

(在某处)度过(一段时间)

If you spend a period of time in a place, you stay there for a period of time.

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N-COUNT

开支;费用

The spend on a particular thing is the amount of money that is spent on it, or will be spent.

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英汉词典释义

vt. & vi.

用钱, 花钱

vt.

花费，消耗，用尽（精力等）

花（时间）；度过

n.

（为某目的或某段时间内的）花销，花费，开销

英英词典释义

Verb

1. pass (time) in a specific way;

2. pay out;

3. spend completely;