| 单词 | spend |
| 释义 | spend I. transitive verb 1. < spends money freely > < spent his inheritance within a few years > 2. a. < the silver agitation had by this time spent its force — Marian Silveus > < gradually the hurricane spent itself — Francis Robinson > < spent himself in the service of humanity — D.S. & Jessie Jordan > b. < prehistorians have spent their learning and ingenuity on reconstructing continental invasions — Jacquetta & Christopher Hawkes > < determined to spend these new bullets … more profitably — H.H.Arnold & I.C.Eaker > c. < spend your rich opinion for the name of a night-brawler — Shakespeare > d. archaic 3. < have spent the greater part of the last year going up and down the countryside — S.P.B.Mais > < spends three hours a day on his studies > < spent his life in a quiet village > < spend the evening with his friends > 4. < to royalize his blood, I spent my own — Shakespeare > < the ship spent its mast > intransitive verb 1. < spends without any thought for the next day > 2. chiefly dialect 3. < I have no skill to make money spend well — R.W.Emerson > Synonyms: < spend a hundred dollars for a coat > < spending billions on wars > It may apply to using, consuming, or exhausting without tangible or specific return < spend time on the project > < spend one's life in government service > expend is often but not always applied to larger sums or more important materials and attributes < more than twenty million dollars has been expended in the construction — American Guide Series: New York City > < during the war years we have expended our resources — both human and natural — without stint — H.S.Truman > < this eloquence was always expended in expounding the duties of the citizen — H.L.Mencken > disburse is sometimes interchangeable with expend; it indicates a paying out or distributing, often from a public or corporation fund, sometimes by a person or agency other than the one doing the spending or expending < state and federal funds disbursed for roads aggregated $34,514,584 — James Brewster > < waiting for the teller to disburse those complex payroll accounts — Christopher Morley > • - spend one's mouth II. |
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