spend
v. 花钱; 消耗
n. 花费
When you spend money, you pay money for things that you want.
By the end of the holiday I had spent all my money...
到假期结束时,我已经花光了自己所有的钱。
Businessmen spend enormous amounts advertising their products...
商人们花费巨额资金为自己的商品做广告。
If you spend time or energy doing something, you use your time or effort doing it.
Engineers spend much time and energy developing brilliant solutions...
工程师们花费很多时间和精力来开发完美的解决方案。
This energy could be much better spent taking some positive action.
这些精力若用于采取某些积极行动的话,可能会更值得。
If you spend a period of time in a place, you stay there for a period of time.
We spent the night in a hotel.
我们在一家旅馆过夜。
The spend on a particular thing is the amount of money that is spent on it, or will be spent.
...the marketing and advertising spend.
营销和广告开支
1. pass (time) in a specific way;
2. pay out;
3. spend completely;
cost, expend, spend, take
这些动词均含"花费"之意。
spend a penny
(英,非正式,婉)小便
She would pinch on food in order to spend on clothing.
她过去常把伙食费省下来买衣服.
I've never seen anyone spend so much in one evening; he must have money to burn!
我从未见过一晚上就挥霍掉这么多钱的人, 他一定有的是钱.
How do you spend your leisure?
你是怎样消磨空闲时间的?
He can't spend too much time arguing with you about this matter. He has other fish to fry.
他不能用太多的时间和你辩论这件事, 他另有要事.
Have you decided on where you'll spend your holidays?
你是否已经决定到什么地方去度假?