Opponents have already spent millions of dollars on television ads aimed at whipping up grass-roots opposition to the Obama plan.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

And I imagine that for most of you, when you ask yourself, would you want your entire life ? to be spent hooked up to the experience machine?

我想你们中多数人，当你们自问，是否愿意,在体验机器上度过一生？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So we spent the Christmas holidays exploring the city and seeing the decorations that they have put up.

所以，在圣诞节假期，我们探索了这座城市，欣赏了他们挂上去的装饰品。

第一次来纽约 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

BP has already spent over $1 billion on the clean-up operation .

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Bob mentioned in his introduction that I showed up at Yale in 1985, after having spent six years on Wall Street, and I was totally unencumbered by any portfolio management experience.

鲍勃在介绍中提到,我1985年刚来耶鲁时,已经在华尔街待了六年,完全没有任何,投资组合管理的经验

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"I actually got stuck in a gondola with him. And he was telling me about his experience and how he spent maybe the first five or six years of his career just crashing into fences and blowing up until he finally figured out how to make it all work."

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

So, I grew up in the South and spent most of my time down in North Carolina.

我在南边儿长大的，但是我大多数时间是在北卡罗莱纳州度过的。

选康内尔大学的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

As far as I know, he doesn't publish he's not in the newspapers, but he's gotten the ear of the Treasury Secretary They spent many weekends together figuring out what should be done about the system and they wrote up a proposal.

据我所知，他从没出过书,也没有上过新闻，但他却有当财政部长的潜质,他花了数周的时间来搞清楚,对于现在的美国金融体系,该怎么改革然后书写成书。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选