spend

[spend] [spend]
  • 复数:spends;
  • 第三人称单数:spends;
  • 过去式:spent;
  • 过去分词:spent;
  • 现在分词:spending;
  • 例句
    同义词
    反义词
    • vt. & vi.
      spend的反义词之:
      earnsave
    • spend的反义词之:其他释义
      earn
    同义词解析
    • 以下这些动词均包含 "花费" 的意思
      cost指花费时间、金钱、劳力等。其主语是物,而不能由人充当,也不用被动形式。
      expend较正式用词,通常指为某一专门目的而花费大量金钱、时间或精力。
      spend普通用词,与cost基本同义,但主语必须是人。
      take普通用词,指需要占用空间、时间或精力等,其主语可以是人,也可以是一件事情。
    词组
    • spend a penny
      (Brit. informal)urinate (used euphemistically) (英,非正式,婉)小便
    英语四级真题
    • While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy – in theory at least – when it comes to paper quality.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • They are also spending more time working with each other rather than reporting upwards.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • Shoppers in the UK are spending less money on toilet paper to save money, research has shown.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • Loosely managed teams can become hotbeds of distraction—employees routinely complain that they can't get their work done because they are forced to spend too much time in meetings or compelled to work in noisy offices.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • In the last year alone, despite an increase in the UK population and a subsequent rise in the number of households, sales of toilet paper fell by 2%, with the average household reducing their toilet roll spending from £43 in 2014 to £41 in 2015.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • I had spent two years cultivating this community, and it had become successful very fast, within six months, but I was facing the prospect of losing it all.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • Britons have cut their spending on itits prices have gone up over the yearsits quality has seen marked improvementBritons have developed the habit of savingIt will expand in time.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • She was also spending a lot of time on Facebook.
      出自-2017年6月听力原文
    • Meeting people was the thing, and you went to coffee bars where you met friends and spent the evening.
      出自-2017年6月听力原文
    • Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • The cost for saving our civilization would be considerably less than the world's current military spending.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • I do not think that we spend nearly enough time trying to concentrate on achieving a sort of calmness, a sort of contentment in a mental and spiritual way, which was identified by these people as the highest form of happiness and pleasure.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • They spend that money on other things, which stimulates the economy.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • The effect of falling oil prices on consumer spending.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • People are not spending all the money they save on gas.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • Many oil producers built up huge reserve funds when prices were high, so when prices fall they will draw on their reserves to support government spending and subsidies ( ' , 补贴) for their consumers.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • Consumers will spend their savings from cheap oil on other commodities.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • Agents and fashion houses who hire models with a BMI under 18 could pay $82,000 in fines and spend up to 6 months in jail.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • If you spend a little time digging for the right part-time jobs, you’ll save yourself time when you find a job that leaves you with enough time to get your school work done, too.
      出自-2016年12月听力原文
    • Yet moments like this one are just the kind of intense absorption and pleasure adults spend the rest of their lives seeking.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • Spending money is so fast and easy.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • Many spend their lives trying to avoid arguments.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • Isn't it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink ( ' , 眨眼 ) of an eye? Doesn't a wallet—that time-honoured Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness—represent something that matters? But I'll leave the economics to the experts.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • If you spend much time with educators and policy makers, you'll hear a lot of the following words: standards, results, skills, self-control, accountability, and so on.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstracted.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • A child's ability to become deeply absorbed in something, and derive intense pleasure from that absorption, is something adults spend the rest of their lives trying to return to.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • Since 1977, I have spent much more time abroad than in the United States.
      出自-2015年12月听力原文
    • ConAgra’s Research and Development staff spent a year working under the instruction: whatever the cost, don’t sacrifice taste.
      出自-2015年12月听力原文
    • Agents and fashion houses who hire models with a Bmi under 18 could pay $82,000 in fines and spend up to 6 months in jail.
      2016年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    • At McDonald's, customers will spend on average 3 minutes and 9 seconds from the time they place their orders until they receive their food.
      2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
    • Careme would often spend his free afternoons at the nearby National library reading book on art and architecture.
      2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • If you spend a little time digging for the right part-time jobs, you'll save yourself time when you find a job that leaves you with enough time to get your school work done, too.
      2016年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • If you spend much time with educators and policy makers, you' ll hear a lot of the following words: "standards," "results," "skills," "self-control," "accountability" and so on.
      2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • PepsiCo is to spend billions of dollars to develop drinks and snacks and reformulate existing ones with lower sugar, salt and fat, as consumers demand healthier options and regulatory pressure intensifies amid an obesity epidemic.
      2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    • Private courier companies, which have more dollars to spend, use their expertise in logistics to help revitalize damaged areas after a disaster.
      2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • Some people wonder why countries spend millions of dollars on space projects.
      2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
    • Sometimes its employees are released from their daily jobs for weeks and spend their time interacting in the innovation facility instead.
      2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
    英语六级真题
    • While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • While Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday all saw record spending online, in-store sales plunged over the holiday weekend.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • They have seriously polluted the places where birds spend winter.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • There are usually two parents, who spend a lot of time reading to children and worrying about their anxiety levels and hectic schedules.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • The summer after 7th grade, students spend three weeks on a college campus studying advanced math for seven hours a day.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • The college spending analysis justifies the outsourcing plan.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • Tennessee's technical and community colleges will not outsource ( ' , 外包) management of their facilities to a private company, a decision one leader said was bolstered by an analysis of spending at each campus.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • Meanwhile, Macy's has simply struggled to lure consumers who are more interested in spending on travel or dining out than on new clothes or accessories.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • Its flagship stores in major U.S. cities depend heavily on international tourist spending, which shrank at many retailers due to a strong dollar.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • It is backed by a campus spending analysis.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • In poor families, meanwhile, children tend to spend their time at home or with extended family.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • In an email sent Monday to college presidents in the Tennessee Board of Regents system, outgoing Chancellor John Morgan said an internal analysis showed that each campus' spending on facilities management fell well below the industry standards identified by the state.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute found that birds following traditional migration routes were more likely to die than German storks that flew only as far as northern Morocco, and spent the winter there on rubbish dumps.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • Can you tell us how you first became interested in this subject matter?( ' , 9 ) Wh e n f a c i n g a n e w situation, some people tend to rehearse their defeat by spending too much time anticipating the worst.
      出自-2017年6月听力原文
    • They have to spend lots of time choosing products.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • The money spent on kitchens has risen with their status.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • The amount spent on interactive advertising on television is still small.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • Spending fell by 10% in the first half of the year.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • Is surgery, radiation or careful monitoring best for prostate ( ' , 前列腺) cancer? Is the latest and most expensive cholesterol-lowering drug any better than its common competitors? The pending bills would spend additional money to accelerate this effort.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • But overall, we suspect that spending would come down through elimination of a lot of unnecessary or even dangerous tests and treatments.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • We need more funding and more effort to return these languages to everyday use, says Fred Nowuski of the National Museum of the American Indian, We are making progress but money needs to be spent on revitalising languages, not just documenting them.
      出自-2016年6月听力原文
    • Today, the average American spends 8.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • There is no clarification of how the money will be spent.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • For the study, 325 employees spent six months taking part in ROWE, while a control group of 334 employees continued with their normal workflow.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • But now these segments are looking at slower growth curves – or shrinking markets in some cases – as consumers are not as eager to spend money on new gadgets.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • Bearded Russian priests offer regular services at the Orthodox church for the 16 or so Russian speakers who spend the winter at the base, largely polar scientists in fields like glaciology and meteorology.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • And 29%, the invisible risk group, scored high on three in particular: They spent five hours a day or more on electronic devices.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • 8 hours at work daily, and the majority of working professionals spend additional hours checking in with work during evenings, weekends and even vacations.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • And the New Yorkers who spent a bundle on an outdoor hot tub now admit they rarely use it, because we can’t afford to heat it in winter.
      出自-2016年12月听力原文
    • They spend a lot of time building strong connections with businesses.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • The shift, little noticed outside the medical establishment but already controversial inside it, suggests that doctors are starting to redefine their roles, from being concerned exclusively about individual patients to exerting influence on how healthcare dollars are spent.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • Students who take more challenging classes and spend more time studying do learn more.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • Per-capita local government spendingIn other words, communities with high levels of per-capita income growth, high percentages of two-parent families, and high local government spending—which may stand for good schools— are the most likely to help poor children relive Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches story.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • Although going to college is supposed to be a full-time job, students spent.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • "She was a scientist on the level with a lot of people we spend a lot of time talking about," said Kay Etheridge, a biologist at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania who has been studying the scientific history of Merian's work. "She didn't do as much to ch
      2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • And cutting the working week would be conducive to the individual, giving millions of workers more time to spend as they see fit.
      2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
    • And these big food corporations have so much money to spend on clever tactic design to make young children want to buy their products.
      2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
    • At 62, you continue to spend a large percentage of your life touring.
      2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
    • Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago.
      2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
    • But now these segments are looking at slower growth curves – or shrinking markets in some cases – as consumers are not as eager to spend money on new gadgets.
      2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • But that doesn't mean that all students will do amazingly, if they just spend all their time reading from a textbook.
      2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
    • I spend most of my time studying the big bang theory and where our universe came from.
      2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
    • Instead, Rodriguez solicits residents' advice on what he should get on his cheeseburger and how he should spend the afternoon.
      2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
    • Pipitone claims that healthy adults need not spend money on protein supplements.
      2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • She found she did spend a lot less money because it is incredibly hard to predict how much cash one is going to need—she was forever drawing money out of Cashpoints.
      2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
    • The children spend longer watching the video showing the researcher they hadn't met.
      2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • The concern seems to be that open advocates don't spend their time being as productive as possible.
      2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • The pending bills would spend additional money to accelerate this effort.
      2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • They just ask for one questionnaire to be sent out, for example, so the time you spend on an ad-hoc project tends to be fairly short.
      2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
    • Today, the average American spends 8.8 hours at work daily, and the majority of working professionals spend additional hours checking in with work during evenings, weekends and even vacations.
      2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • Try to not have lunch at your desk, but instead spend time outside or with your friends一not talking about work.
      2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • We "stop" work sometimes at 5 pm, but then we spend the night wrestling with solutions to work problems, talking about our work over dimer, and falling asleep thinking about how much work we'll do tomorrow.
      2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • We may instead find ourselves feeling guilty about the time we didn't spend watching our children grow all with our loved ones, or travelling or on the cultural or leisure suits that bring us happiness.
      2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
    • We spend a great deal of time studying history, Hawking said, which, let's face it, is mostly the history of stupidity.
      2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
    • We spend our days looking at ideas from journalists, writing copy for the magazine and website and editing.
      2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
    • We're unlikely to spend our last moments regretting that we didn't spend enough of our lives slaving away at work.
      2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
    柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
    英汉词典释义
    英英词典释义
    • Verb
      1. pass (time) in a specific way;
      "How are you spending your summer vacation?"
      2. pay out;
      "spend money"
      3. spend completely;
      "I spend my pocket money in two days"