Spend

(verb.) pay out; 'spend money'.

(verb.) spend completely; 'I spend my pocket money in two days'.

(verb.) pass time in a specific way; 'how are you spending your summer vacation?'.

杰德手打

• I thought you were going to spend the whole autumn with us, and I've hardly laid eyes on you for the last month. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Among the more rigid socialists and reformers it is not customary to spend much time discussing mental habits. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in your room. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• To me it was, and ever must be an enigma, how they contrived to spend so much time in doing so little. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The 'Merrikin gov'ment will never give him up, ven vunce they find as he's got money to spend, Sammy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• My dear Gerty, I always understand how people can spend much more money--never how they can spend any less! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Stay here and dine, stay here and help us to spend our last evening with you as happily, as like our first evenings, as we can. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I begged a fortnight's grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I alluded to the coldness of her letters; but the few minutes we had spent together sufficiently explained the origin of this. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• If you always spent money in that way, no one would blame you, said Jo warmly. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Kitty, to her very material advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• You're very right, Sir,' interposed Ben Allen, just awake enough to know that he had spent his thousand pounds without the smallest difficulty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• All was acknowledged, and half the night spent in conversation. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• The repeating rifle now seemed an interesting possibility and large sums were spent in developing a weapon of this type. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It would have been shameful to fail after spending so much time and money, when everyone knew that you could do well. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• There's a friend of mine, sir, that had the intention of spending the evening with me when I gave you up--much against my will--for the night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Your friend is spending her vacation in travelling, I hear? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It was her favorite way of spending the hour of dusk. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I asked him presently whether he had been spending his half-holiday up and down town? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Neither one of the couple cared for money, but their disdain of it took the form of always spending a little more than was prudent. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• We have actually pretended that the work of extracting a living from nature could be done most successfully by short-sighted money-makers encouraged by their money-spending wives. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Of course I understand--he spends it on living with the rich. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It appears that he spends but little time at his toilet, or he would arrange it with more taste. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Spends a deal of money on his dress, ma'am. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Mr. Jellyby spends his evenings at her new house with his head against the wall as he used to do in her old one. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He that spends a groat a day idly, spends idly above six pounds a year, which is the price for the use of one hundred pounds. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• One man spends his fortune in one way, and another in another. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Bless you, I don't spend it, it spends itself somehow, and is gone before I know it. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

整理:威廉