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spent

英 [spent] 美[spɛnt]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

adj. 耗尽了的；精疲力尽的
v. 花费（spend的过去分词）；浪费；耗费

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As a society we might want to rethink the time and money spent on education, so that these resources can benefit a greater percentage of the population.

Kodak is an example of a firm that was very much aware that they had to adapt, and spent a lot of money trying to do so, but ultimately failed.

Mr Jobs, who died recently aged 56, spent his life packaging that magic into elegantly designed, easy-to-use products.

More than half of their time is spent directing traffic and writing parking tickets.

I spent my boyhood climbing trees on Streatham Common, South London.

Guy Grant, now a research associate at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge, spent two years working for a pharmaceutical (制药的) company before returning to university as a post-doctoral researcher

So someone leaving university who already has the skills needed to work in an industrial lab has far more potential in the job market than someone who has spent all their time on a narrow research project.

Bishop describes the problem as simply a matter of priorities, which can be solved by encouraging people to prioritize other life goals and plans in place of time spent online.

Excessive Internet use should be defined not by the number of hours spent online but "in terms of losses," said Maressa Orzack, a Harvard University professor

Andrew Heidrich, an education network administrator from Sacramento, plays World of Warcraft for about two to four hours every other night, but that's nothing compared with the 40 to 60 hours a week he spent playing online games when he was in college.

too much time was spent in chat rooms

Once she lost a two-cent stamp and spent the night looking for it.

Worst of all, when her son, Ned, fell and injured his knee, she refused to pay for a doctor and spent hours looking for free medical help

With the time spent eating, sleeping and taking care of household duties.

In different countries, free time is spent in different ways

Time spent on leisure activities.

Time spent with friends and family

Much time is spent on collecting data.

He spent too much time on details.

Also, a large amount of public funds is spent on roads.

An industry backed anti-tax campaign has spent at least $4 million on advertisements.

And here's one more: We went on a campaign trip once in Italy, and my wife spent the whole time worrying about bats getting into her hair.

Billions of dollars each year are spent on schools and libraries.

Blance spent a week in Hong Kong and photographed more than 60 signs; 22 of them appear in the series that capture the signs lighting up lonely streets—an approach that makes it easy to admire their colors and craftsmanship.

But on the subject of obesity, she pointed out that consumers' lifestyles have changed significantly, with many people being more sedentary (久坐不动的) not least because more time is spent in front of computers.

ConAgra's Research and Development staff spent a year working under the instruction: whatever the cost, don't sacrifice taste.

Meeting people was the thing, and you went to coffee bars where you met friends and spent the evening.

Moses spent three hours looking after the bees and was stung five times.

since 1977, I have spent much more time abroad than in the United States.

The airlander 10 spent nearly 2 hours in the air, having taken off from Cardington airfield in Bedfordshire.

The company spent the last five years developing solar panels that are only about a quarter of an inch thick and are strong enough to stand up to heavy highway traffic without breaking or making the roads more slippery.

The Texas A&M Travel Institute found that rush-hour travelers spent extra 42 hours on the road last year because of travel delays.

If Americans saved more and spent less, consistently over time, they wouldn't have to worry about all that.

in one study, people who were instructed to think about money before entering a cafe spent less times chatting with the other patrons and more time working.

He spent most of his days outdoors and had deep love for the wild lands.

The interracial roommates spent less time together, and had fewer joint activities than the white pairs.

Jackson spent five years in prison after a jury wrongly convicted him of raping two women

Although going to college is supposed to be a full-time job, students spent, on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

And 29%, the "invisible risk"group, scored high on three in particular: They spent five hours a day or more on electronic devices.

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.

Before writing Metamorphosis, Merian spent decades documenting European plants and insects that she published in a series of books.

California has spent years preparing for "The Big One"—the inevitable earthquake that will undoubtedly unleash all kinds of havoc along the famous San Andreas fault (断层).

During the hours spent waiting in vain to see a bone doctor, I decided to take another track and try acupuncture.

Each day that Elop spent in charge of Nokia, the company's market value declined by $23 million, making him, by the numbers, one of the worst CEOs in history.

For example, years when people spent more time with friends were better years for well-being and followed by better years.

For the study, 325 employees spent six months taking part in ROWE, while a control group of 334 employees continued with their normal workflow.

However, the "screen time" hypothesis, advanced by researchers such as Jean Twenge, is that electronic devices and excessive time spent online may have reversed these trends in recent years, causing problems for young people's psychological health.

I spent all last week end researching what topics are popular, what words to use in captions and similar accounts to follow.

So the researchers looked at time spent in a number of activities that could plausibly be driving the well-being decline.

The amount spent on interactive advertising on television is still small.

The money spent on kitchens has risen with their status.

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

They found that adolescents who spent a very small amount of time on digital devices—a couple of hours a week—had the highest well-being.

Twenge and her colleagues also found that across the key years of 2013-16, well-being was indeed lowest in years where adolescents spent more time online, on social media, and reading news online, and when more youth in the United States had smartphones.

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.

At first, john spent his time hunting for fun.

Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty's people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, miss.

But according to Anderson, the amount of time spent watching television is not related to reading ability.

But the amount of time spent in reading each session has declined, from closer to an hour or more to closer to a half hour per session.

Diners at bad tables — next to the kitchen door, say — spent nearly as much as others but soon fled.

Firstly, they spent more time in search food.

Gin spent five months in early 2015 exploring the most remote corners of this area, which sits on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, with half its population of only 250, 000 living in its capital, Cayenne.

He spent much of his childhood in France where he spent many hours each day outdoors painting pictures.

I remember back in high school I spent most of my day at school since I also played a team sport.

Investing in time for parenting and raising relationships is money well spent.

Jim has retired, but he still remembers the happy time spent with his students.

Last year, I spent all my time looking for a job where, without dealing with the public, I could work alone, but still have a team to talk to.

Much time spent sitting at a desk, office workers are generally troubled by health problems.

My brothers can no doubt remember hours spent cleaning the house.

Naomi and Steve met every other week and spent hours together.

Once, after a trip to Hollywood, I returned to Australia so depressed and spent months in my bedroom painting, listening to Eckhart Tolle's music and trying to find myself again.

Particular scents also have an effect: diners who got the scent of lavender stayed longer and spent more than those who smelled lemon, or no scent.

So he spent time improving his painting skills and began to sell his paintings.

The government spent nearly 30 years coming up with a plan to reintroduce the wolves.

This is despite evidence that a dollar spent on risk-reduction saves at least two on reconstruction.

Time spent for preparation raises the quality of training.

When classical, rather than pop, music was playing, diners spent more.

With her dad's permission, she spent the next two years researching online and conducting trials to get a recipe that was both tasty and tooth-friendly.

With that, I spent eight to ten hours a day with Joe in the hospital, doing anything and everything I could to ease his discomfort.

"Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on," he claimed.

But historically we have spent about 12 percent of our days contemplating the longer term.

But most people will come away from this book believing it was money well spent.

In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires——nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.

In another case, American archaeologists Rene million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.

The Dutch giant Elsevier, which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world, made profits of more than £900m last year, while UK universities alone spent more than £210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access their own publicly f

Thinking of time as a resource to be maximized means you approach it instrumentally, judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal.