Scientists think the largest dinosaurs would have to have spent thirty hours a day chewing and swallowing their food.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

That didn't work. Well they couldn't figure out what was wrong. And they spent a long time trying to debug the program.

调试这个程序,那时候当然不叫调试了,然后他们发现了问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And it's starting to give me problems. I've spent a lot of money in repairing it.

它开始故障不断，我已经在修理费上花了很多钱。

I'd like 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Though she never ran for office, she spent her life energetically working to improve the lives of people with developmental problems.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Suppose somebody said, "Look, I spent 20 years living in France, and then I came back to the United States.

假设某人说,我在法国住了二十年,之后我回到美国

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

She spent her later years turning her home and art collection into a beautiful museum for the public to enjoy.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

So, you might have noticed that we will have spent about 6 and 1/2 lectures just getting to the point where we have only one electron, so we're only up hydrogen so far.

你们可能已经注意到了,我们已经花了６周半的时间,来仅仅是讲到单电子问题的情形，我们现在只研究氢原子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

She spent most of her life working to change traditional beliefs about art,artists and a woman's professional role in society.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

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

New York Times reporter Alastair Macaulay has spent weeks travelling around the United States to see many different "Nutcracker" performances.

VOA: special.2010.12.22

So the president spent lot of his time not just to keep himself infromed.

因此总统会花很多的时间,不仅仅使他自己信息灵通。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

He spent the last week in February writing what he believed to be the true position of the South.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Hobbes returned to England the same year of the book's publication, and spent most of the rest of his long life, Leviathan was written well into his 60s.

霍布斯回到了英国,在他书出版的那年，他度过了他剩下的漫长的时光，《利维坦》在他60多岁的时候写成。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Much of the money was spent on payments to men who had fought in the Union Army during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

He spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria, but he died in London and he escaped to London soon after retreating there at the beginning of World War II as the Nazis began to occupy where he lived.

他的大半生都是居住在奥地利的维也纳，却在伦敦去世,二战伊始，随着纳粹侵占其家乡,他被迫背井离乡,后来逃到伦敦，在那里终其余生。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Farrah Fawcett spent much of her career working hard to prove that she was more than just a pretty face.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

In other words, people spent a lot of money to consult the oracle.

换句话说,人们花很多钱来请示神谕

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

South Africa has also spent nearly two billion dollars to build five new stadiums, including one in the tourist center of Durban.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

But still she contacted this person, spent time with him and later came to regret it.

但你的朋友还是联系了这个人，跟他相处了一段时间，慢慢有点后悔了。

I should have 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Although she has spent her life trying to protect chimps in their natural environment, these animals are still very much in danger.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

The Lady's talent has to be spent in order to fulfill the covenant of the trust between the master and the servant.

小姐的才能必须要利用,按主人和仆人之间的信任契约去做。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But much more time is spent on the nuts and bolts generally called logistics of how to transport and supply an army.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

It was probably the pivotal point of our friendship when he realized I had actually spent some hours thinking about him and his troubles and he was trying to place that in his tremendously involved and tormented mental categories.

这或许是我们之间友谊的关键时刻,他知道我的确用了许多时间考虑他和他的困境,在他陷入极其复杂的痛苦的精神危机时,他更是急于想了解这一点。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Secretary Clinton praised efforts to fight Islamic extremism in Indonesia, where Barack Obama spent part of his childhood.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

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

The astronauts' decrease in bone strength measured from point six percent to five percent for each month spent on the space station.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

spent a lot of time going to Latin America to work on poverty alleviation projects,

他在拉丁美洲待了很久，主要处理扶贫项目，

换专业的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

We spent some time in the lively Bywater and Faubourg Marigny areas to hear local musicians performing in clubs and drinking places.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

I spent my entire senior year applying to scholarships, everything I could find.

我用整个高三来申请奖学金，发掘可发掘的一切资源。

斯坦福的奖学金 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

For socialization, we designed the course so that at the beginning of the course and the end of the course the students were brought literarily from all over the world to New York and they spent a day with Professor Low and with each other.

为实现社会化,我们将来自世界各地的,学者聚集到纽约,并在课程开始和,结束的时候,让他们和Low教授,共同度过一整天。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选