Spend
[ spɛnd ]
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vt.& vi. 用钱，花钱;
vt. 花费;消耗;花（时间）;度过;
n. （为某目的或某段时间内的）花销，花费，开销;
💡 词根助记
s(dis-=apart)+pend(hang)→花费；耗用
📝 例句
How much time do you spend practicing English everyday?
你每天花多少时间练习英文？
Advertisements are designed to entice people into spending money/to spend money.
广告宣传的目的是诱使人花钱.
Candles spend fast in draught.
蜡烛在风口点得很快。
My cousin will spend the weekend with us.
我表兄要和我一起度周末。
I had planned to spend Friday in seclusion going over my notes.
我打算星期五一天独自一人躲在一个地方再去润色我的发言稿。
🌱 联想助记
【串】各路神仙attend(参加),大量时间spend(花费),很多粮食expend(消耗),吃饱后先suspend(暂停),结束日期depend(视情况而定)
【记】※ spend-花费,expend-花费:花钱的正式称呼叫“消费”
※ sp-拼音“蛇皮”,end-最后:最后所有的蛇皮被消耗光了,我们只好再花费一些钱再买一些
※ sp-拼音“蛇皮”,end-结束:花费昂贵金钱买了一件蛇皮大衣,穿上去结束了寒冷,度过了冬天
✅ 同义词
🔴 反义词
🔤 词根
📖 牛津释义
spend
v
(pt, pp spent )
1 [I, Tn, Tn.pr]
~ sth (on/sth) give or pay out (money) for goods, services, etc 用（钱）; 花（钱）
He spends as if he were a millionaire. 他用起钱来像个百万富翁似的.
She's spent all her money. 她把钱都花光了.
He spends too much (money) on clothes. 他在衣著上花费太大.
2 [Tn, Tn.pr]
~ sth (on sth/in doing sth)
(a) use (time, etc) for a purpose 花（时间等）
spend a lot of time on a project/(in) explaining a plan 花很多时间进行某项目[解释某方案]
spend one's energy cleaning the place up 用力气把那地方打扫乾净.
(b) use sth up; exhaust sth 用完, 耗尽（某物）
The blizzard quickly spent itself, ie used up all its force. 暴风雪很快就停了下来.
They went on firing until they had spent all their ammunition. 他们不停地射击, 耗尽了所有的弹药.
I've spent all my energy on this. 我对此事已呕尽心血.
3 [Tn, Tn.pr]
pass (time) 度过, 消磨（时间）
How do you spend your spare time? 你业余时间怎麽打发?
spend a weekend in Paris 在巴黎过周末
spend summer holidays by the sea 在海滨过暑假.
4 (idm 习语) spend the `night with sb (euph 婉) sleep for a night in the same bed as and have sexual intercourse with sb to whom one is not married 跟某人过一夜（与非配偶同床并发生性行为）. spend a`penny (infml euph 口, 婉) go to the toilet; urinate 去厕所; 解?quot;?BR> I'm just going to spend a penny. 我要去厕所.
🎯 考研助记
四盆豆（谐音）：四盆豆 花费了我四块钱
🔁 扩展释义
*[spend]vt. 花费, 浪费, 度过, 消耗, 消磨vi. 花费, 用尽
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so why don't we get right to work?
我们现在就开始工作， 好吗？
I ought to stay at home.
我应该留在家中。
A good knowledge of English will improve your chances of employment.
英语好将有助于增加你们的就业机会。