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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And you'll take any pains, and spend any money, to drive me out of this country, will you?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The giant said: 'If you are such a valiant fellow, come with me into our cavern and spend the night with us.'
-- Frederick of course made no objection to that plan, and they set off into the wood to look for the thieves; but they could not find them: and when it grew dark, they climbed up into a tree to spend the night there.
-- So they had to spend the night with the goose.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They spend the greatest part of their lives in 212 Gulliver's Travelsobserving the celestial bodies, which they do by the as-sistance of glasses, far excelling ours in goodness.
-- But, in order to feed the luxury and intemperance of the males, and the vanity of the females, we sent away the greatest part of our necessary things to other countries, whence, in re-320 Gulliver's Travelsturn, we brought the materials of diseases, folly, and vice, to spend among ourselves.
-- He said, 'he had been very seriously considering my whole sto-ry, as far as it related both to myself and my country; that he looked upon us as a sort of animals, to whose share, by what accident he could not conjecture, some small pittance 329of reason had fallen, whereof we made no other use, than by its assistance, to aggravate our natural corruptions, and to acquire new ones, which nature had not given us; that we disarmed ourselves of the few abilities she had bestowed; had been very successful in multiplying our original wants, and seemed to spend our whole lives in vain endeavours to supply them by our own inventions; that, as to myself, it was manifest I had neither the strength nor agility of a common Yahoo; that I walked infirmly on my hinder feet; had found out a contrivance to make my claws of no use or defence, and to remove the hair from my chin, which was intended as a shelter from the sun and the weather: lastly, that I could neither run with speed, nor climb trees like my brethren,' as he called them, 'the Yahoos in his country.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I spend my savings so, once every year.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not care about fatigue, and resolved to spend a few days in the mountains.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You couldn't spend your last sou, and say finally: So that's THAT!No, if you lived even another ten minutes, you wanted a few more sous for something or other.
-- You'll let your youth slip by, and you'll spend your old age, and your middle age too, repenting it.'
-- It was still their habit to spend the evening together, till ten o'clock.
-- The lads spend every penny on themselves, clothes, smoking, drink-ing in the Miners' Welfare, jaunting off to Sheffield two or three times a week.
-- They only want a bit of money in their pocket, to spend at the Welfare, or go gadding to Sheffield.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Give me the money again,' said the other, eagerly, 'and I'll keep it, and never spend it.
-- He would have found it amply in that gallant brother and that dainty sister, so steeped in mean experiences, and so loftily conscious of the family name; so ready to beg or borrow from the poorest, to eat of anybody's bread, spend anybody's money, drink from anybody's cup and break it afterwards.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nobody spoke for a minute; then Meg said in an altered tone, 'You know the reason Mother proposed not having any presents this Christmas was because it is going to be a hard winter for everyone; and she thinks we ought not to spend money for pleasure, when our men are suffering so in the army.
-- 'But I don't think the little we should spend would do any good.
-- 'I planned to spend mine in new music,' said Beth, with a little sigh, which no one heard but the hearth brush and kettle holder.
-- Sallie's friend, Annie Moffat, took a fancy to me, and asked me to come and spend a week with her when Sallie does.
-- 'I've been routed up early all winter and had to spend my days working for other people, so now I'm going to rest and revel to my heart's content.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Supper over, the company went back to the bar-room, when, knowing not what else to do with myself, I resolved to spend the rest of the evening as a looker on.
-- But I soon found that there came such a draught of cold air over me from under the sill of the window, that this plan would never do at all, especially as another current from the rickety door met the one from the window, and both together formed a series of small whirlwinds in the immediate vicinity of the spot where I had thought to spend the night.
-- I now demand of you to speak out and tell me who and what this harpooneer is, and whether I shall be in all respects safe to spend the night with him.
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