spent

英[spent]美[spɛnt]

adj.用过的，不再有用的，已废的，失效的；

v.用钱，花钱( spend的过去式和过去分词 )，花费，消耗，花（时间）；

例句

one tonne of plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel从废核燃料中提取的一吨

The dealer spent hours bargaining for the painting.那个商人为购买那幅画花了几个小时讨价还价。

More than 70 per cent of my time has been spent in teaching.我的时间70%以上用在了教学上。

She spent a sleepless night.她度过了一个不眠之夜。

The gardener spent a complete morning in trimming those two shrubs.园丁花了整个上午的时间修剪那两处灌木林。

The new president spent the first year undoing the work of his predecessor.新总统用了第一年的时间来收拾前任总统留下的摊子。

He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。

He spent important money on a small jewel for his wife.他花大笔钱购买小小的宝石给太太。

We’ve spent our Easter holidays pleasantly.我们的复活节假期过得很愉快。

The new album is proof that this band is not a spent force just yet.新专辑证明这支乐队风头仍健。

英语四级真题

As a society we might want to rethink the time and money spent on education, so that these resources can benefit a greater percentage of the population.

Kodak is an example of a firm that was very much aware that they had to adapt, and spent a lot of money trying to do so, but ultimately failed.

Mr Jobs, who died recently aged 56, spent his life packaging that magic into elegantly designed, easy-to-use products.

More than half of their time is spent directing traffic and writing parking tickets.

I spent my boyhood climbing trees on Streatham Common, South London.

Guy Grant, now a research associate at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge, spent two years working for a pharmaceutical (制药的) company before returning to university as a post-doctoral researcher

So someone leaving university who already has the skills needed to work in an industrial lab has far more potential in the job market than someone who has spent all their time on a narrow research project.

Bishop describes the problem as simply a matter of priorities, which can be solved by encouraging people to prioritize other life goals and plans in place of time spent online.

Excessive Internet use should be defined not by the number of hours spent online but "in terms of losses," said Maressa Orzack, a Harvard University professor

Andrew Heidrich, an education network administrator from Sacramento, plays World of Warcraft for about two to four hours every other night, but that's nothing compared with the 40 to 60 hours a week he spent playing online games when he was in college.

too much time was spent in chat rooms

Once she lost a two-cent stamp and spent the night looking for it.

Worst of all, when her son, Ned, fell and injured his knee, she refused to pay for a doctor and spent hours looking for free medical help

With the time spent eating, sleeping and taking care of household duties.

In different countries, free time is spent in different ways

Time spent on leisure activities.

Time spent with friends and family

Much time is spent on collecting data.

He spent too much time on details.

Also, a large amount of public funds is spent on roads.

An industry backed anti-tax campaign has spent at least $4 million on advertisements.

And here's one more: We went on a campaign trip once in Italy, and my wife spent the whole time worrying about bats getting into her hair.

Billions of dollars each year are spent on schools and libraries.

Blance spent a week in Hong Kong and photographed more than 60 signs; 22 of them appear in the series that capture the signs lighting up lonely streets—an approach that makes it easy to admire their colors and craftsmanship.

But on the subject of obesity, she pointed out that consumers' lifestyles have changed significantly, with many people being more sedentary (久坐不动的) not least because more time is spent in front of computers.

ConAgra's Research and Development staff spent a year working under the instruction: whatever the cost, don't sacrifice taste.

Meeting people was the thing, and you went to coffee bars where you met friends and spent the evening.

Moses spent three hours looking after the bees and was stung five times.

since 1977, I have spent much more time abroad than in the United States.

The airlander 10 spent nearly 2 hours in the air, having taken off from Cardington airfield in Bedfordshire.

The company spent the last five years developing solar panels that are only about a quarter of an inch thick and are strong enough to stand up to heavy highway traffic without breaking or making the roads more slippery.

The Texas A&M Travel Institute found that rush-hour travelers spent extra 42 hours on the road last year because of travel delays.

英语六级真题

If Americans saved more and spent less, consistently over time, they wouldn't have to worry about all that.

in one study, people who were instructed to think about money before entering a cafe spent less times chatting with the other patrons and more time working.

He spent most of his days outdoors and had deep love for the wild lands.

The interracial roommates spent less time together, and had fewer joint activities than the white pairs.

Jackson spent five years in prison after a jury wrongly convicted him of raping two women

Although going to college is supposed to be a full-time job, students spent, on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

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

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.

Before writing Metamorphosis, Merian spent decades documenting European plants and insects that she published in a series of books.

California has spent years preparing for "The Big One"—the inevitable earthquake that will undoubtedly unleash all kinds of havoc along the famous San Andreas fault (断层).

During the hours spent waiting in vain to see a bone doctor, I decided to take another track and try acupuncture.

Each day that Elop spent in charge of Nokia, the company's market value declined by $23 million, making him, by the numbers, one of the worst CEOs in history.

For example, years when people spent more time with friends were better years for well-being and followed by better years.

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

However, the "screen time" hypothesis, advanced by researchers such as Jean Twenge, is that electronic devices and excessive time spent online may have reversed these trends in recent years, causing problems for young people's psychological health.

I spent all last week end researching what topics are popular, what words to use in captions and similar accounts to follow.

So the researchers looked at time spent in a number of activities that could plausibly be driving the well-being decline.

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

The money spent on kitchens has risen with their status.

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

They found that adolescents who spent a very small amount of time on digital devices—a couple of hours a week—had the highest well-being.

Twenge and her colleagues also found that across the key years of 2013-16, well-being was indeed lowest in years where adolescents spent more time online, on social media, and reading news online, and when more youth in the United States had smartphones.

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.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

Spent is the past tense and past participle of spend .

ADJ

已用尽的;用过的

Spent substances or containers have been used and cannot be used again.

例句

英汉词典释义

_no_

spend的过去式和过去分词

adj.

用过的;不再有用的; 已废的; 失效的

<文>筋疲力尽的

权力不再的人(或集团)；不再有影响力的人(或集团)

英英词典释义

Adjective

1. drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted;

2. having all been spent;