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).
雙語例句
1. I can't think of a worse way to spend my time.
我想不出更糟的消磨時間的辦法。
來自柯林斯例句
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(fèi)掉42億美元。
來自柯林斯例句
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。
來自柯林斯例句
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。
來自柯林斯例句
5. She has yet to spend a Christmas with her husband.