spend是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 花费； 消耗， 用尽； 度过， 消磨，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The very lamplighter, who ran on 68 Sons and Loversbefore, dotting the dusky street with specks of light, and who was dressed to spend the evening somewhere, laughed out loudly as the Spirit passed, though little kenned the lamplighter that he had any company but Christmas.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Pick up that, philosopher and vendor of wine,' said the Marquis, throwing him another gold coin, 'and spend it as you will.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch's permanent summer villa was in Peterhof, and the Countess Lidia Ivanovna used as a rule to spend the summer there, close to Anna, and constantly seeing her.
-- I can understand compulsory military service, which affects my children, my brothers, and myself, I am ready to deliberate on what concerns me; but deliberating on how to spend forty thousand roubles of district council money, or judging the half-witted Alioshka--I don't understand, and I can't do it."
-- Kitty wrote that no prospect was so alluring as to spend the summer with Dolly at Ergushovo, full of childish associations for both of them.
-- "You know, Kitty's coming here, and is going to spend the summer with me."
-- Those who lived near had gone home, while those who came from far were gathered into a group for supper, and to spend the night in the meadow.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You see, a man of sound sense ought not to spend his life jumping from a steamer upon a railway train, and from a railway train upon a steamer again, pretending to make the tour of the world in eighty days!No; all these gymnastics, you may be sure, will cease at Bombay."
-- Mr. Fogg, on reaching shore, proceeded to find out at what hour the first train left for New York, and learned that this was at six o'clock p.m.; he had, therefore, an entire day to spend in the Californian capital.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A week before examinations, when he was trying to spend twenty-four hours a day in making love to her, twenty-four in grinding for examinations, and twenty-four in the bacteriological laboratory, he promised Clif that he would spend that summer vacation with him, working as a waiter in a Canadian hotel.
-- He snarled, "Arrowsmith, you are a moon-calf!My God, am I to spend my life with Dummkopfe?
-- He had appropriated four dollars for the orgy, strictly including the tip, and his standard of good food was that he must spend every cent of the four dollars.
-- Personally I should like nothing so much as to spend my whole life in just producing one priceless scientific discovery, without consideration of mere profit.
-- He had never visited McGurk but he considered it, next to Rockefeller and McCormick, the soundest and freest organization for pure scientific research in the country, and if he had pictured a Heavenly laboratory in which good scientists might spend eternity in happy and thoroughly impractical research, he would have devised it in the likeness of McGurk.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, Dounia was not that sort when I knew her and 芒聙娄 she is still the same, of course!Yes, there's no denying, the Svid-riga脙炉lovs are a bitter pill!It's a bitter thing to spend one's life a governess in the provinces for two hundred roubles, but I know she would rather be a nigger on a plantation or a Lett with a German master than degrade her soul, and her mor-al dignity, by binding herself for ever to a man whom she does not respect and with whom she has nothing in com-mon for her own advantage.
-- It would all come to the same thing he'd spend it on drink, so the thing had better be with me.
-- 'I'll always be pleased to spend an hour with you, kind gentleman, but now I feel shy.
-- That's how I spend my nights!芒聙娄 What's the use of talking of forgiveness!I have forgiven as it is!'
-- But, Rodya, nothing would induce me to leave you now!I will spend the night here, near you 芒聙娄' 'Don't torture me!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were sitting as before, one evening (when my mother was outas before), in company with the stocking and the yard measure,and the bit of wax, and the box with Saint Paul's on the lid, and thecrocodile book, when Peggotty, after looking at me several times,and opening her mouth as if she were going to speak, withoutdoing it- which I thought was merely gaping, or I should havebeen rather alarmed- said coaxingly'Master Davy, how should youlike to go along with me and spend a fortnight at my brother's atYarmouth?
-- 'Do you want to spend anything now?'
-- 'Perhaps you'd like to spend a couple of shillings or so, in a bottleof currant wine by and by, up in the bedroom?'
-- 'You'll be glad to spend anothershilling or so, in almond cakes, I dare say?'
-- This, and the reference of all his little bills atthe county inn where he slept, to my aunt, before they were paid,induced me to suspect that he was only allowed to rattle hismoney, and not to spend it.
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