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| 1 | I/T to use money to pay for things 花（钱）；花费 |
| How much money did you spend? 你花了多少钱？ |
| spend sth on sth We’ re spending a lot more on food than we used to. 我们在食物上的花销比过去多多了。 |
| spend sth doing sth They spent about £600 just rebuilding the front porch. 仅仅重建前门廊他们就花了大约600英镑。 |
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| 2 | T to stay somewhere or do something for a period of time 花费，度过（一段时间） |
| We spent the day at the beach. 我们在海滩度过了一天。 |
| spend time on sth How much time do you spend on homework? 你做作业花了多少时间？ |
| spend sth with sb I’ m going to spend Thanksgiving with my family. 我打算和我的家人一起过感恩节。 |
| spend sth doing sth (with sb) I’ ll need to spend an hour rehearsing with the cast. 我需要花1小时时间与全体演员一起彩排。 |
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| 3 | T often passive to use your time , effort , or energy to do something 消耗，花费（时间、精力等） |
| Considerable energy is spent on making the costumes look perfect. 人们花了相当多的精力把这件服装制作得尽善尽美。 |
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| - | spend the night with sb
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| 1 | to have sex with someone and stay with them all night 跟某人一起过夜 |
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| 2 | to sleep at someone’ s house for one night 在某人家里过夜 |
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| - | spend a penny old-fashioned
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| 上厕所 |
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