spend

英 [spend] 美[sp?nd]

反義詞

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復(fù)數(shù):?spends;第三人稱單數(shù):?spends;過去式:?spent;過去分詞:?spent;現(xiàn)在分詞:?spending;

spend 用，花，花錢，花銷，消耗

來自拉丁語 spendere,縮寫自 expendere,花銷，支付，用，來自 ex-,向外，-pend,稱量，支付，詞源同 pound,pendulum,expend.拼寫比較 sport,disport,splay,display.引申諸相關(guān)詞義。

spend: spend: [OE] Spend is a blend of verbs from two distinct sources, but both going back ultimately to Latin pendere ‘weigh, pay’. The earlier was Latin expendere ‘pay out’ (later to give English expend [15]), which Old English took over as spendan. (It was also the source of German spenden.) This was later reinforced by dispend, a borrowing from Old French despendre which now survives only in dispense.
=> dispense, expend, pendant, pendulum
spend (v.): "to pay out or away" (money or wealth), Old English -spendan (in forspendan "use up"), from Medieval Latin spendere, a shortening of Latin expendere "to weigh out money, pay down" (see expend) or possibly of dispendere "to pay out." A general Germanic borrowing (Old High German spendon, German and Middle Dutch spenden, Old Norse spenna). In reference to labor, thoughts, time, etc., attested from c. 1300. Intransitive sense "exhaust, wear (oneself) out" is from 1590s (see spent).

2. Novello says college students will spend $4.2 billion yearly on alcoholic beverages.: 諾韋洛說大學(xué)生每年在酒精飲品上會消費掉42億美元。

3. Businesses need to train their workers better, and spend more on R&D.: 各企業(yè)需要更好地培訓(xùn)工人，并且在研發(fā)方面加大投入。

4. Slow music encourages supermarket-shoppers to browse longer but spend more.: 舒緩的音樂會促使超市購物者花更長的時間瀏覽商品的同時花更多的錢。

5. She has yet to spend a Christmas with her husband.: 她還從沒和她的丈夫一起過過圣誕節(jié)。