spend是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to give money as a payment for something -- 花費；用，花（錢）

  • How much did you spend? 你花了多少錢？

  • I don't know how I managed to spend so much in the club last night. 我不知道昨晚在俱樂部怎麽會花了這麽多錢。

  • We spent a fortune when we were in New York. 我們在紐約花了一大筆錢。

  • She spends a lot of money on clothes. 她在衣服上開銷很大。

  • We've just spent $1.9 million on improving our computer network. 我們剛花了190萬英鎊改進我們的電腦網路系統。

  • We went on a spending spree (= we bought a lot of things) on Saturday. 我們週六瘋狂購物了一番。

• 1 to use time doing something or being somewhere -- 花（時間）；度過

  • I think we need to spend more time together. 我認爲我們應該多花些時間在一起。

  • I spent a lot of time cleaning that room. 我花了很長時間打掃那個房間。

  • I've spent years building up my collection. 我花了好多年時間蒐集收藏品。

  • I spent an hour at the station waiting for the train. 我在火車站等車等了一個小時。

  • How long do you spend on your homework? 你做功課用了多少時間？

  • My sister always spends ages in the bathroom. 我姐姐總是花很長的時間梳洗打扮。

  • We spent the weekend in Buenos Aires. 我們在布宜諾賽勒斯度過了週末。

  • You can spend the night here if you like. 如果你願意的話，可以在這裡過夜。

• 2 to use energy, effort, force, etc., especially until there is no more left -- 消耗，花費（精力等）；（尤指）用盡（全力）

  • For the past month he's been spending all his energy trying to find a job. 過去的一個月裡，他竭盡全力想找份工作。

  • They continued firing until all their ammunition was spent (= there was none of it left). 他們持續開火，直到彈藥全部打光爲止。

  • The hurricane will probably have spent most of its force (= most of its force will have gone) by the time it reaches the northern parts of the country. 颶風抵達該國北部地區時，風勢可能已減弱了大半。

  • Her anger soon spent itself (= stopped). 她的怒氣很快就煙消雲散了。

• 3 the amount of money that is spent on something -- 花費，開銷

  • The total spend on the project was almost a million pounds. 這個企劃案的花費總計將近100萬英鎊。