| 词汇 | spend |
| 释义 | spendWord family adjectivespendablespentnounspenderspendingspendallspending moneyspendthriftverbspend spend1 /spend/ ●●● S1 W1 verb (past tensepst and past participlepp spent /spent/) 1 money 钱 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]SPEND MONEY to use your money to pay for goods or services 用（钱），花费 I can’t afford to spend any more money this week. 这星期我没有能力花更多的钱了。 spend £5/$10 etc I only want to spend about $20. 我只想花 20 美元左右的钱。 spend something on something More money should be spent on education. 在教育上应该投入更多的钱。 spend something on somebody Mum never spends any money on herself. 妈妈从来都不在自己身上花钱。 The repairs cost a lot, but it’s money well spent (=a sensible way of spending money). 修理费很高，但这是该花的钱。 n Grammar You spend money on something: I don’t spend much on clothes. ✗Don’t say: I don’t spend much for clothes.2 time 时间 [transitiveT]SPEND TIME to use time doing a particular thing or pass time in a particular place 度过，消磨，花〔时间〕 spend time etc with somebody I want to spend more time with my family. 我想花更多的时间和家人在一起。 spend time etc in/at something We’ll have to spend the night in a hotel. 我们将不得不在宾馆过夜。 His childhood was spent in Brazil. 他的童年是在巴西度过的。 spend time etc doing something Stacey spends all her free time painting. 斯泰茜把所有的空余时间都用来绘画。 3 a) spend the night with somebodySEX/HAVE SEX WITH to stay for the night and have sex with someone 和某人过夜〔指发生性关系〕 b) spend the night (at something) if someone spends the night at someone’s house, they sleep at that person’s house for a night （在某处）过夜 She spent the night at a friend’s house. 她在一位朋友家里过了一夜。 4 force/effort 力量/努力 [transitiveT] to use effort or energy to do something 花〔精力〕 I love to cook, but I don’t feel like spending the energy every evening. 我喜欢烹饪，但不愿意每天晚上都花精力去做。 5. spend a penny British EnglishBrE spoken old-fashionedHBH to urinate – used when you want to avoid saying this directly 小便〔委婉说法〕 Examples from the Corpus spend a penny• You do not spend a penny.• Raising cash to spend a penny A CO-OPERATIVE of local councils could help reopen Langbaurgh's public toilets, a councillor claims.• My father said not to spend a penny more than I need.• Weeks she'd been badly, and he wouldn't hear of spending a penny on a doctor. THESAURUS spend to use money to buy things 用〔钱〕,花费 I bought two skirts and a T-shirt and I only spent $50. 我买了两条裙子,一件T恤衫,只花了50美元。 How much do you spend a week on food? 你一个星期购买食物花多少钱？ go through something (also get through something British EnglishBrE) to spend all of an amount of money over a period of time – used especially when saying that someone spends a lot of money 花光,用完〔尤指许多钱〕 I got through all my money in less than a month, and had to get my parents to send me more. 我不到一个月就花完了所有的钱,只得叫我父母再寄。 go to great expense to spend a lot of money in order to do something, because you think it is important or special 〔因为某事重要或特别而〕花大钱 The party was wonderful – they had obviously gone to great expense. 派对办得非常好——他们肯定花了不少钱。 There’s no need to go to great expense. 没有必要花大钱。 squander /ˈskwɒndə $ ˈskwɑːndər/ to waste money on unnecessary things, instead of saving it or using it carefully 浪费〔钱〕,挥霍 His son had squandered the family fortune on gambling and women. 他儿子赌博、玩女人,把家财挥霍殆尽。 splash out British EnglishBrE informal to spend a lot of money on something you really want or will enjoy 〔在非常想要或喜欢的东西上〕大手大脚地花钱 Let’s splash out on a bottle of champagne. 我们奢侈一回,来瓶香槟吧。 People often splash out for Christmas and then regret it later. 人们往往在圣诞节的时候不惜花费,事后又追悔莫及。 blow informal to spend a lot of money on something, especially on something that you do not really need 〔尤指在非必需的东西上〕乱花〔钱〕 Her husband blew all their savings on a new sports car. 她丈夫用他们的全部积蓄买了一辆新跑车。 neconomize to spend less money We’re trying to economize by eating at home instead of going out for meals. Examples from the Corpus spend• I bought two skirts and a T-shirt and I only spent $50.• During the recession, even the tourists weren't spending.• We spent a lot of energy looking for a nice apartment.• Fay spent a year in Italy teaching English.• We spend about £85 a week on food.• At seventeen, he announces that he wants to spend his whole life in a ruined castle by the sea.• Dani spends hours on the phone.• Everyone spends more at Christmas - it's an important time for business.• The government has promised to spend more money on education.• All travelers apparently will be spending more time outdoors this summer.• She spends most of her salary on clothes.• Mom spent most of the weekend cleaning up the house.• Reagan and Gorbachev spent nine hours and forty-eight minutes in face-to-face negotiations.• Customers receive additional Clubcard points for every £2 spent on a Tesco Credit card.• Children are particularly at risk because of the amount of time they spend out of doors.• Now they spend quite a bit of their money, which is nice.• They spend quite a lot of money each week on eating out.• We spent the week in a dingy motel off Route 9.• He spent the whole morning reading the report.• A diabetic, she spent two days in the hospital last week when stress sent her blood pressure rocketing.• I never seem to have any time to spend with the children. money well spent• The $100 I used for my new shoes was money well spent.• A1.5 million when costs are determined, it may well consider the experience to have been money well spent.• At a time when resources are so scarce is this really money well spent?• But as far as producer Ilya Salkind was concerned, it was money well spent.• Experience in Newcastle suggests it could be money well spent.• Given the level of service and quality of the food though-especially the steaks-it's money well spent.• It might, however, be money well spent.• Regis benefited from a $ 100 million renovation five years ago, and it was money well spent.• They see money spent on political campaigns as money well spent. spend time etc doing something• But remember, the goal of making a date is to spend time together, not necessarily to spend money together.• Children who have spent time in adult facilities have a higher rate of recidivism than those who are treated as juveniles.• Likes to spend time online talking to friends and listening to music.• The men are free from child-care responsibilities and can spend time competing for power.• Those humans who are surviving most successfully, now spend time considering the welfare of other creatures.• Those were the days when musicians spent time in each place and got to know people in those towns.• We saw less and less of each other and fought like tigers when we did spend time together.• You don't not spend time on some one just because they aren't about any longer. spend2n noun [uncountableU] nthe amount of money spent by a company, organization, or person on something – used especially in business I was just totting up our advertising spend in the last four or five weeks. From Longman Business Dictionary spendspend1 /spend/ verb (past tensepst and past participlepp spent /spent/) [intransitiveI, transitiveT] 1to use your money to buy or pay for things How much do we have to spend? It is worth spending money on advertising. 2to use or pass time Effective managers spend time getting to know their workers. I have spent the past seven years working in industry. spendspend2 noun [uncountableU] British EnglishBrEACCOUNTING the amount of money spent by a company on a particular activity in a particular period of time They increased the marketing spend needed to launch the new brands. (1100-1200) Partly from Latin expendere ( → EXPEND) and partly, later, from Old French despendre, from Latin dispendere “to weigh out” |
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