公司在促销方面花费了大量的资金。

The company spent a lot of money on promotion.

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为了理解奇点，人们花费了大量的资金。

People are spending a lot of money trying to understand it.

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新买来的产品(花费了大量的资金)可以尽可能多，尽可能快地向前推进你的开发项目。

The just-out-of-shrink-wrap program that you're using (and spent a lot of money on) to propel your development efforts forward as much as possible, as quickly as possible.

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so that means that hidden in there is the idea that these people who are creating these statistics are costing us all a lot of money.

这里隐含的一个观点是,这些统计数据代表的人们,花费了国家大量的资金

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