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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Weston, who had been a widower so long, and who seemed so perfectly comfortable without a wife, so constantly occu-pied either in his business in town or among his friends here, always acceptable wherever he went, always cheerful Mr. Weston need not spend a single evening in the year alone if he did not like it.
-- It is the greatest absurdity Actually snowing at this moment! The folly of not allowing peo-ple to be comfortable at home and the folly of people's not staying comfortably at home when they can!If we were obliged to go out such an evening as this, by any call of duty or business, what a hardship we should deem it; and here are we, probably with rather thinner clothing than usual, setting forward voluntarily, without excuse, in defiance of 138 Emmathe voice of nature, which tells man, in every thing given to his view or his feelings, to stay at home himself, and keep all under shelter that he can; here are we setting forward to spend five dull hours in another man's house, with nothing to say or to hear that was not said and heard yesterday, and may not be said and heard again to-morrow.
-- A young woman, if she fall into bad hands, may be teazed, and kept at a distance from those she wants to be with; but one cannot comprehend a young man's being un-der such restraint, as not to be able to spend a week with his father, if he likes it.'
-- The evening of the very day on which they went brought a note from Mr. Elton to Mr. Woodhouse, a long, civil, cer-emonious note, to say, with Mr. Elton's best compliments, 'that he was proposing to leave Highbury the following morning in his way to Bath; where, in compliance with the pressing entreaties of some friends, he had engaged to spend a few weeks, and very much regretted the impossi-bility he was under, from various circumstances of weather and business, of taking a personal leave of Mr. Woodhouse, of whose friendly civilities he should ever retain a grateful sense and had Mr. Woodhouse any commands, should be happy to attend to them.'
-- Part of every winter she had been used to spend in Bath; but Bristol was her home, the very heart of Bristol; for though the father and mother had died some years ago, an uncle remained in the law line nothing more distinctly honourable was hazarded of him, than that he was in the law line; and with him the daughter had lived.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'd say good morning you needn't spend a hapenny of meaning upon it, and yet keep the man civil."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He meant, like all great souls, that his success should be owing entirely to his merits; but his was pre-eminently a southern temperament, the execution of his plans was sure to be marred by the vertigo that seizes on youth when youth sees itself alone in a wide sea, uncertain how to spend its energies, whither to steer its course, how to adapt its sails to the winds.
-- It was the first time that he had attempted to spend the night in this way in that silent quarter.
-- Michonneau, and they went together to spend the two sunniest hours of the day in the Jardin des Plantes.
-- Eugene said to himself, "I am in for it now, and at least I will not spend cab-hire for nothing!-- Drive to the Hotel Beauseant," he said aloud.
-- His father, mother, brothers, sisters, and aunt did not spend two hundred francs a month among them.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I alighted and was conducted to my solitary apart-ment to spend the evening as I pleased.
-- Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel-houses.
-- This also was my doing!And my father's woe, and the desolation of that late so smiling home all was the work of my thrice-ac-cursed hands!Ye weep, unhappy ones, but these are not your last tears!Again shall you raise the funeral wail, and the sound of your lamentations shall again and again be heard!Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenanc-es, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!
-- Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, hor-ror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts.
-- It was agreed that, imme-diately after our union, we should proceed to Villa Lavenza and spend our first days of happiness beside the beautiful lake near which it stood.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His mind was made up that he was not going to spend all of his days, like Tames and Andrew, in bargaining, orall his nights, by candlelight, over long columns of figures.
-- That night after Mammy had helped her undress and had departed and Charles had emerged shyly from thedressing room, wondering if he was to spend a second night in the horsehair chair, she burst into tears.
-- Southerners were as enthusiastic visitors as they were hosts, andthere was nothing unusual in relatives coming to spend the Christmas holidays and remaining until July.
-- It seemed such a terrible waste to spend all yourlittle girlhood learning how to be attractive and how to catch men and then only use the knowledge for a year or two.
-- So the autumn months of 1862 went swiftly by with nursing, dancing, driving and bandage rolling taking up allthe time she did not spend on brief visits to Tara.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I soon contracted expensive habits, and began to spend an amount of money that within a few short months I should have thought almost fabulous; but through good and evil I stuck to my books.
-- I told her so, and told her that I would spend any money or take any pains to drive him out of that country.
-- I've come to the old country fur to see my gentleman spend his money like a gentleman.
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