And this course in particular isn't at the end of the day about programming even though that is in fact how you will spend a good amount of your time and the skill that you will in fact walk away with.

尤其特别的是,这门课程最终的目标,不是教会你编程,尽管编程会花费你们大量的时间和精力。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Milton has expended, we know, a considerable amount of energy in establishing what he wants us, I am assuming, to believe is the divine authority behind the poem.

我们知道弥尔顿花费了，大量精力阐释他希望我们相信的东西，我设想，他要我们相信在这部诗篇的背后有无上神权的存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But they spent a lot of time, energy, and money on being sure that they would have a supply of water to hold them for a long siege.

他们花费了大量的时间,精力,和金钱来确保,在长期的围城中他们可以获得足够的水源

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