You can picture spend as taking something you have a limited supply of — coins in your pocket, hours in your day, energy in your body — and pouring it out to get something done. Once it's poured out, it's gone. The most everyday picture is money leaving your hand at a shop, but the same act of 'using up a limited store' carries over to time, to effort, and even to the amount that gets used up.
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原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
spendverb/spɛnd/
- 1
To pay out (money).
- I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.
- He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.
- 2
To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment.
- 3
datedTo squander.
- to spend an estate in gambling
- 4
To exhaust, to wear out.
- The violence of the waves was spent.
- their bodies spent with long labour and thirst
- 5
To consume, to use up (time).
- My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.
- We spent the winter in the south of France.
- 6
datedTo have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
- The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.
- 7
To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
- Energy spends in the using of it.
- The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.
- 8
To be diffused; to spread.
- The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
businessminingTo break ground; to continue working.
spendnoun/spɛnd/
- 1
Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
- I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
- 2
Expenditures; money or pocket money.
- Total January spends by year
- The spends have been made by our strategic partners […]
- 3
Discharged semen.
- 4
Vaginal discharge.
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