But they have no say in how that money is spent.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

Every country computes an estimate of how much is spent each year on consumption by the people who live in the country.

每个国家估算出,生活在该国国内居民,每年的消费额。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We're not creating jobs, the money that's being spent is not being spent wisely.

我们没有创造新的工作机会，花钱花得也不明智。

担忧未来 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

More than seventy billion dollars is spent on those weddings.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

Does anybody know why so much time is spent on that? Yes?

有谁知道为什么要在这上面花这么多时间吗,你说

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

What we're trying to do here is to change the system in the United States from one that is based on the time that is spent in the seat to one that is based on your actual accomplishments."

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Like I said, with the most valuable resource being the president's time, a lot of efficiently running White House time is spent on how to allocate that precious resource.

正如我所说，在白宫里,最宝贵的资源是总统的时间，很多高效运作的时间,都用于决定如何使用,这个宝贵的资源。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Assadourian says one percent of the global economic product is spent on ads and commercials.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

What I just spent many lectures discussing is the fact that we can not know how far away an electron is from the nucleus, so we can't actually know the radius of a certain atom.

我花了这么多课时所讨论的正是我们,不可能知道电子离原子核有多远这一事实，因此我们不可能知道某个原子的半径。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Mr.Bush promised that he and Mr.Clinton will see that the money is spent wisely.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

Well a number of you have spent this past week playing with this particular tool which is a project the course has been working on for some time in an effort to make it easier and more social to actually shop for courses.

在过去的一周里,已经有一部分人开始使用这种特殊的工具了,这门课程一直在致力于这一工具的开发,目的是为了让课程变的更简单,选课更人性化。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Critics say the money is being spent too slowly with less than sixty percent being spent so far.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

spent a lot of time and effort kind of figuring out what is it that people will want to buy next week.

他花费了很多的时间和精力来研究,人们想要在下个星期买进什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

is in honor of Black Hawk, an Indian chief who spent most of his life in neighboring Illinois!

VOA: special.2009.08.09

I find that even ten minutes to start with or even five minutes to start with is like a completely legitimate time, time well spent, just breathing, even with eyes open, I think it's harder when with eyes open, maybe that's something you lead up to.

从十分钟开始,甚至是五分钟,这段时间合情合理，真正被利用了，只需呼吸，甚至可以睁开眼，睁着眼睛会增加难度，你也需要为之努力。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Money that is likely to be spent quickly can burn a hole in your pocket.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

And the rest, what we see of the rest, is nowhere in the classroom for Orson Welles in terms of technique. So that remake is interesting and that's why I spent the pages discussed it in my chapter. But it's not a competitor.

剩下的呢，就是我们所看到的，没有给奥森·威尔斯施展,他技艺的空间，所以翻拍版很好玩,这也是为什么我用许多页来,在我那一章中讨论此事。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

He promises to show, online, where taxpayer money is being spent.

VOA: special.2009.01.09

And the idea, again, is the kids who don't get rewarded say to themselves, "Well, I just spent time doing it, it must have an intrinsic value," while the children who get rewarded say, "I did it for the sticker. I did it for the toy.

再一次，没有得到奖励的孩子心里想，“我花了时间来做这件事，它一定是有内在的价值的”,而拿到奖励的小孩会说，“我是为了贴纸和玩具才做的”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And they must guarantee that the money is well spent.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

The endowment at Yale is something like two million dollars per student now that's just sitting there as money that could be spent.

耶鲁基金总额目前折合下来是,每个学生两百万美元,这笔钱就放在那里,随时可以折现花掉

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

the show is open to the public. Cam Rankin came from New Hampshire and has spent the morning admiring the flowers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

Yeah. So I spent two years in Israel studying in the place called Gush at Etsyon the Etsyon Block which is about 20 km south of Jerusalem.

对，所以说我在以色列待了两年,在Etsyon的Gush学习,在距耶路撒冷以南20公里的Etsyon地区。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And where does the money go? The country is not poor, and yet the money is not spent on the people."

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

So this is perhaps a site that some of you have spent way too much time on last year, if not in the past week or so, com this is isawyouharvard.com.

很多同学去年的时候,在这个网站上花费了很多时间，可能上周还玩了，这个网站的网址是isawyouharvard。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Is she a sleeper Russian spy, one who has spent a lifetime in the United States waiting to fulfill her mission?

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Both sides are expressing concern over North Korean statements on Friday that Pyongyang is continuing to extract plutonium from spent nuclear fuel for material useable in weapons.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

People often assume that Chopin was French - he spent half his life in France and is buried there in the famous Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

Mr.Taylor is the first witness in his defense and has spent much of the last 13 weeks dismissing the prosecution case against him as a series of lies.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

"Virtually none of that has been spent Gaza is being reconstructed;

VOA: standard.2010.06.17