spend 后面接名词通常用on sth 接动词用(in可省略)doing sth

spend1 /spend/ ●●● S1 W1 verb (past tense and past participle spent /spent/)    

1 MONEY [intransitive, transitive] to use your money to pay for goods or services I can’t afford to spend any more money this week.spend £5/$10 etc I only want to spend about $20.spend something on something More money should be spent on education.spend something on somebody Mum never spends any money on herself. The repairs cost a lot, but it’s money well spent (=a sensible way of spending money)

Grammar You spend money on something:I don’t spend much on clothes.✗Don’t say: I don’t spend much for clothes.

2 TIME [transitive] to use time doing a particular thing or pass time in a particular place spend time etc with somebody I want to spend more time with my family.spend time etc in/at something We’ll have to spend the night in a hotel. His childhood was spent in Brazil.spend time etc doing something Stacey spends all her free time painting.

3a) spend the night with somebody to stay for the night and have sex with someoneb) spend the night (at something) if someone spends the night at someone’s house, they sleep at that person’s house for a night She spent the night at a friend’s house.

4 FORCE/EFFORT [transitive] to use effort or energy to do something I love to cook, but I don’t feel like spending the energy every evening.

5 → spend a pennyTHESAURUSspend to use money to buy thingsI bought two skirts and a T-shirt and I only spent $50.How much do you spend a week on food?go through something (also get through something British English) to spend all of an amount of money over a period of time – used especially when saying that someone spends a lot of moneyI got through all my money in less than a month, and had to get my parents to send me more.go to great expense to spend a lot of money in order to do something, because you think it is important or specialThe party was wonderful – they had obviously gone to great expense.There’s no need to go to great expense.squander /ˈskwɒndə $ ˈskwɑːndər/ to waste money on unnecessary things, instead of saving it or using it carefullyHis son had squandered the family fortune on gambling and women.splash out British English informal to spend a lot of money on something you really want or will enjoyLet’s splash out on a bottle of champagne.People often splash out for Christmas and then regret it later.blow informal to spend a lot of money on something, especially on something that you do not really needHer husband blew all their savings on a new sports car.economize to spend less moneyWe’re trying to economize by eating at home instead of going out for meals.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusspend• I bought two skirts and a T-shirt and I only spent $50.• During the recession, even the tourists weren't spending.• We spent a lot of energy looking for a nice apartment.• We spend about £85 a week on food.• At seventeen, he announces that he wants to spend his whole life in a ruined castle by the sea.• Dani spends hours on the phone.• Everyone spends more at Christmas - it's an important time for business.• The government has promised to spend more money on education.• All travelers apparently will be spending more time outdoors this summer.• She spends most of her salary on clothes.• Mom spent most of the weekend cleaning up the house.• Reagan and Gorbachev spent nine hours and forty-eight minutes in face-to-face negotiations.• Customers receive additional Clubcard points for every £2 spent on a Tesco Credit card.• Children are particularly at risk because of the amount of time they spend out of doors.• Now they spend quite a bit of their money, which is nice.• They spend quite a lot of money each week on eating out.• We spent the week in a dingy motel off Route 9.• He spent the whole morning reading the report.• A diabetic, she spent two days in the hospital last week when stress sent her blood pressurerocketing.• I never seem to have any time to spend with the children.