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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way.
-- In one of those southern whalesmen, on a long three or four years' voyage, as often happens, the sum of the various hours you spend at the mast-head would amount to several entire months.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Fair, or not fair,' retorted Sikes, 'hand over, I tell you!Do you think Nancy and me has got nothing else to do with our precious time but to spend it in scouting arter, and kidnapping, every young boy as gets grabbed through you?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bingley intended it likewise, and sometimes made choice of his county; but as he was now provided with a good house and the liberty of a manor, it was doubtful to many of those who best knew the easiness of his temper, whether he might not spend the remainder of his days at Netherfield, and leave the next generation to purchase.
-- At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only cho-sen because it was the second volume of his, she gave a great yawn and said, 'How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way!I declare after all there is no enjoyment like read-ing!How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
-- While the family were in this confusion, Charlotte Lucas came to spend the day with them.
-- 'When my brother left us yesterday, he imagined that the business which took him to London might be concluded in three or four days; but as we are certain it cannot be so, and at the same time convinced that when Charles gets to town he will be in no hurry to leave it again, we have determined on following him thither, that he may not be obliged to spend his vacant hours in a comfortless hotel.
-- On the following Monday, Mrs. Bennet had the pleasure of receiving her brother and his wife, who came as usual to spend the Christmas at Longbourn.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was at a strange loss to understand this, and resolved to spend some time in the observing it, to see if nothing from the sets of the tide had occasioned it; but I was pres-ently convinced how it was - viz.
-- I was loth to spend our shot too hastily; so I called my ser-vant, not my man Friday, for he was better employed, for, with the greatest dexterity imaginable, he had charged my fusee and his own while we were engaged - but, as I said, I called my other man, and giving him a horn of powder, I had him lay a train all along the piece of timber, and let it be a large train.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They will have no carriage, no horses, and hardly any servants; they will keep no company, and can have no expenses of any kind!Only conceive how comfortable they will be!Five hundred a year!I am sure I cannot imagine how they will spend half of it; and as to your giving them more, it is quite absurd to think of it.
-- "I should be puzzled to spend so large a fortune myself," said Mrs. Dashwood, "if my children were all to be rich without my help."
-- Sir John had been very urgent with them all to spend the next day at the park.
-- Will you come and spend some time at Cleveland this Christmas?
-- So well had they recommended themselves to Lady Middleton, so agreeable had their assiduities made them to her, that though Lucy was certainly not so elegant, and her sister not even genteel, she was as ready as Sir John to ask them to spend a week or two in Conduit Street; and it happened to be particularly convenient to the Miss Steeles, as soon as the Dashwoods' invitation was known, that their visit should begin a few days before the party took place.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Carrie had returned home, flushed with her first success and ready, for all her weariness, to discuss the now interesting events which led up to her achievement, the former had merely smiled approvingly and inquired whether she would have to spend any of it for car fare.
-- He would visit the local resorts, or those near by in Wisconsin, and spend a few stiff, polished days strolling about conventional places doing conventional things.
-- "Say, Carrie," he said one morning, shortly after they had so established themselves, "I've invited my friend Hurstwood to come out some day and spend the evening with us."
-- "'Expect to spend most of the "summah" in France,'--vain thing.
-- "Did he spend the evenings here?"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You had better let me invest it along with your six thousand, because if you take it you'll spend it.'
-- 'No, sir,' I says, 'I don't want to spend it.
-- He was saying how the first thing he would do when he got to a free State he would go to saving up money and never spend a single cent, and when he got enough he would buy his wife, which was owned on a farm close to where Miss Watson lived; and then they would both work to buy the two chil- dren, and if their master wouldn't sell them, they'd get an Ab'litionist to go and steal them.
-- I had considerable money, so I give him ten cents, but begged him to spend it for something to eat, and give me some, because it was all the money I had, and I hadn't had nothing to eat since yesterday.
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