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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides M. Aronnax, you must see yourself that, during our submarine hunt, we can spend but little air and but few balls."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I couldn't spend my time playing her games.
-- She was quite willing, given a studio, to spend her days at Shortlands.
-- Every morning, after breakfast, she went into his room when he was washed and propped up in bed, to spend half an hour with him.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering Heights.
-- They had invited them to spend the morrow at Wuthering Heights, and the invitation had been accepted, on one condition: Mrs. Linton begged that her darlings might be kept carefully apart from that 'naughty swearing boy.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff had arranged his trip so that he might spend twenty-four hours with his aunts, but, seeing Katiousha, decided to remain over Easter Sunday, which was two days later, and wired to his friend and commander Shenbok, whom he was to meet at Odessa, to come to his aunts.
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