spend
基本释义
- v.度过,花(时间);花(钱),花费;消耗,用尽(精力等)
- n.花费,开销
- n.预算
词语例句
度过,花(时间)vt.
六级四级I spend too much time watching television.
我看电视花的时间太多。
Her column is published every Monday, so she usually spends a large part of the weekend working on it at home.
她的专栏每周一出版,所以她通常周末的大部分时间都在家里写作。
Her conclusions have been backed up by British research looking at children with relatively fewer toys, whose parents spend more time reading, singing, or playing with them.
她的结论得到了英国一项研究的支持,该研究观察了玩具相对较少的儿童,他们的父母花更多时间和他们阅读、唱歌或玩耍。
花(钱),花费vt.&vi.
六级四级高考I've spent all my money already.
我已经把我的钱全都花完了。
She spends freely, which makes her very popular among friends.
她花钱大方,这让她在朋友中很受欢迎。
Private courier companies with more dollars to spend use their expertise in logistics to help revitalize damaged areas after a disaster.
私人快递公司有更多的钱可以花,他们利用自己在物流方面的专长来帮助灾后受损地区恢复生机。
消耗,用尽(精力等)vt.
四级六级She spends too much effort on things that don't matter.
她在一些无关紧要的事情上花费精力太多。
Americans believe in spending their time and energy today so that the fruits of their labor may be enjoyed at a later time.
美国人相信今天要花费时间和精力,以便以后能享用他们的劳动果实。
Most of all, though, I wish a tenth of the energy that's spent endlessly debating GM crops was focused on those more pressing challenges for global agriculture.
然而,最重要的是我希望把花费在无休止争论转基因作物上的十分之一的精力集中到全球农韭面临的更紧迫的挑战上。
花费,开销n. (sing.)
The average spend at the cafe is £10 a head.
在咖啡馆的人均消费是10英镑。
- I spend too much time watching television.我看电视花的时间太多。来自《牛津词典》
- They spend hours feeding on the ocean floor.它们花几个小时在海底进食。来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
- They wanted to spend the evening by themselves.他们想要单独度过这个夜晚。来自《牛津词典》
相关短语
- spend ... on ...在……上花费……
- sb. spend some time / money (in) doing /on sth.某人在某事上花费时间 / 金钱
- spend time doing sth.花(时间)做某事
- spend time in sth.在某事上花时间
- spend oneself精疲力竭,耗尽精力
- spend time花时间;消磨时间
- spend money花钱;破费
- spend on在…方面花费
- spend money on花多少钱买某物
- spend time doing花费时间做……
- spend money like water挥金如土;花钱如流水;花钱如水
- How to Spend Sundays如何度过星期天;如何消度星期日;怎样度过星期天;星期天如何度过
- spend time消磨时间;度过时光;花时间;消磨时光
- Not spend不花
- How To Spend It如何消费;教你如何花掉你的年终奖金
词语扩展
词义分布
英英释义
- v.pass (time) in a specific way
- v.pay out
- v.spend completely
- v.to pay money for things that you want or need
花费,用(钱)- I have spent all my money.我花光了我所有的钱。
- v.to use your time doing something
花费(时间)- She spends hours working on her garden.她在花园里工作了数小时。
词源
- spend花费(时间,金钱等);消磨,度过;消耗,用尽来源于拉丁语动词pendere(支付;称重)在拉丁语中派生的expendere(支付) 和在古法语中派生的despendre(分配)。 词根词缀: s(ex-)出,向外 + -pend-支付
- spend用,花,花钱,花销,消耗来自拉丁语 spendere,缩写自 expendere,花销,支付,用,来自 ex-,向外,-pend,称量,支付, 词源同 pound,pendulum,expend.拼写比较 sport,disport,splay,display.引申诸相关词义。