spend

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vt. 花费, 浪费, 度过, 消耗, 消磨 vi. 花费, 用尽

发音

US /spɛnd/

词形变化

spending spends 复数 spends spended spendest spendeth spends 三单 spent spentest spending 现在分词 spent 过去式 spent 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

预算

动词

度过，消磨（时光）；花费；浪费；用尽

to use your money to pay for goods or services

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.

    可数 不可数

    I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.

  2. 2.

    Expenditures; money or pocket money.

    可数 不可数 复数形式
  3. 3.

    Discharged semen.

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    Vaginal discharge.

    可数 不可数
v. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To pay out (money).

    花

    及物/不及物

    I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.

    He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.

  2. 2.

    To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.

  3. 3.

    To squander.

    过时

    to spend an estate in gambling

  4. 4.

    To exhaust, to wear out.

    花

    The violence of the waves was spent.

  5. 5.

    To consume, to use up (time).

    度过

    度

    My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.

    We spent the winter in the south of France.

  6. 6.

    To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.

    及物/不及物 过时

    The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.

  7. 7.

    To waste or wear away; to be consumed.

    不及物

    Energy spends in the using of it.

  8. 8.

    To be diffused; to spread.

  9. 9.

    To break ground; to continue working.

    商务 采矿

词汇关系

动词

同义词 3

drop pass expend

上位词 10

use eat pay consume exhaust expend deplete eat up run through use up

下位词 10

do put place use eat save blow summer waste weekend

相关短语

spend a penny 上公共厕所 spend time 花时间 spend good money after bad spend money like water 挥金如土 throw good money after bad 想补偿损失反而损失得更多 don't spend it all in one place don't spend it all at once

词源

From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend. Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate”), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend”).

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