• vt. 度过，消磨（时光）；花费；浪费；用尽
• vi. 花钱；用尽，耗尽
• n. 预算

来自拉丁语 spendere,缩写自 expendere,花销，支付，用，来自 ex-,向外，-pend,称量，支付， 词源同 pound,pendulum,expend.拼写比较 sport,disport,splay,display.引申诸相关词义。

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).

1. I can't think of a worse way to spend my time.

我想不出更糟的消磨时间的办法。

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2. Novello says college students will spend $4.2 billion yearly on alcoholic beverages.

诺韦洛说大学生每年在酒精饮品上会消费掉42亿美元。

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3. Businesses need to train their workers better, and spend more on R&D.

各企业需要更好地培训工人，并且在研发方面加大投入。

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4. Slow music encourages supermarket-shoppers to browse longer but spend more.

舒缓的音乐会促使超市购物者花更长的时间浏览商品的同时花更多的钱。

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5. She has yet to spend a Christmas with her husband.

她还从没和她的丈夫一起过过圣诞节。

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