"There are a host of efficiencies that can be gained without increasing our personnel or our budget, but rather decreasing the amount of money that's spent on unnecessary things in order to fund some of the critical initiatives that we've all talked about,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

We've spent a couple of weeks now reading Milton's declarations of the importance of the shepherd's trade.

几周以来我们读到的弥尔顿,一直在高谈牧羊人的营生的重要性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

We've spent the last week and a half or so, maybe a bit more, two weeks, talking about arguments for the existence of the soul.

我们已经花了一周半,也许还多点,两周吧,来讨论证明灵魂存在的论证

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

You've spent a couple of years in Israel. -Yeah.

你在以色列生活过几年，-是的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And we've spent some time talking about this.

我们花时间讨论过。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

We've already spent a fair amount of time this semester talking about searches.

我们这个学期已经花了,很多时间来讲搜索和搜索算法了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

We've talked--we spent a lot of time talking about that--the most popular music, virtually all of it--although after the fact people try to write it down.

我们说过，我们花了很长时间讨论过，大部分流行乐　,可以说是所有流行乐，虽然事实上人们确实会想把它写下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Well, we've spent-- Let's step back and think of where we've been.

我们已经花了--,让我们退一步,想想我们都讨论了些什么

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I've spent thousands of hours just walking in the institute woods.

我已经花了几千个小时，So，I’ll，go…,在学院的森林里散步。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

We've talked about the peak experience I have spent a lot of time in New York City, and even in the small park down the way I can watch and look at a tree.

我们说过我在大峡谷,我常常去，But，we，almost…,纽约，即使在顺路的小公园里,我也可以观赏一棵树。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选