(past and past participle spent)with obj.
1- pay out (money) in buying or hiring goods or services用钱（购物, 租物, 支付服务费）, 花费：
the firm has spent£100,000 on hardware and software.
公司花了10万英镑购买硬件和软件。
1.1
- pay out (money) for a particular person's benefit or for the improvement of something（为扩大某人利益或改善情况）花钱：
the college spent £140 on each of its students.
学院为每个学生花了140英镑。
1.2
- used to show the activity in which someone is engaged or the place where they are living over a period of time花时间（做某事）; 度过：
she spent a lot of time travelling.
她花大量时间旅行。
1.3
- use or give out the whole of; exhaust用尽, 耗尽：
she couldn't buy any more because she had already spent her money
她不能再买任何东西了, 因为她已经把钱都花光了
the initial surge of interest had spent itself.
最初狂热般的兴趣势头已尽。
- informal an amount of money paid for a particular purpose or over a particular period of time〈非正式〉（用于某一目的的, 某一时期内的）支出, 开销, 花费：
the average spend at the cafe is about £10 a head.
这家小餐馆的人均消费约为10英镑。
短语
spend a penny
- Brit. informal urinate (used euphemistically)〈英, 非正式, 婉〉小便。
- ORIGIN: with reference to the coin-operated locks of public toilets.
派生词
spendable
adjectivespender
noun词源
Old English spendan, from Latin expendere 'pay out'; partly also a shortening of obsolete dispend, from Latin dispendere 'pay out'.