spend:[spend] vt.& vi.用钱,花钱; vt.花费; 消耗; 花(时间); 度过;
[ 第三人称单数 spends 现在分词 spending 过去式 spent 过去分词 spent ]
V-T When you spend money, you pay money for things that you want or need. 花 (钱)
By the end of the holiday I had spent all my money.
到那个假期结束时我已经花光了我所有的钱。
Businessmen spend enormous amounts advertising their products.
商人们花巨额资金为他们的产品做广告。
V-T If you spend time or energy doing something, you use your time or effort doing it. 花 (时间、精力)
Engineers spend much time and energy developing brilliant solutions.
工程师们花大量时间和精力开发出色的解决方案。
V-T If you spend a period of time in a place, you stay there for a period of time. 度过 (一段时间)
We spent the night in a hotel.
我们在一家宾馆过了夜。
I spend too much time watching television.
我看电视花的时间太多。
I could spend each day gorging on chocolate.
我可以将每一天都花在狂吃巧克力上。
They wanted to spend the evening by themselves.
他们想要单独度过这个夜晚。
Harold Sanditen and his classmates had the chance to spend nine days working with top music directors and cabaret artists.
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So I think the first critical decision I made is don't spend money as you promised it to your investors.
这就是我所做的第一个决策,不要像承诺的那样去花钱。
We aren't very wealthy, so we don't have enough money to spend on that even if I wanted to.
我们不是很富有,所以即使是我想买,我也没有足够的钱去买。
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