Spending

(noun.) the act of spending or disbursing money.

编辑:基蒂

• It would have been shameful to fail after spending so much time and money, when everyone knew that you could do well. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• There's a friend of mine, sir, that had the intention of spending the evening with me when I gave you up--much against my will--for the night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Your friend is spending her vacation in travelling, I hear? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It was her favorite way of spending the hour of dusk. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I asked him presently whether he had been spending his half-holiday up and down town? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Neither one of the couple cared for money, but their disdain of it took the form of always spending a little more than was prudent. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• We have actually pretended that the work of extracting a living from nature could be done most successfully by short-sighted money-makers encouraged by their money-spending wives. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• She was spending the winter in the city with connections, the family of Colonel John O'Fallon, well known in St. Louis. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• His mother and sister were out spending the evening with a relation. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• They were always moving from place to place in quest of a cheap situation, and always spending more than they ought. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• You wouldn't mind spending your days here? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I travelled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhassa, and spending some days with the head lama. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• There's something worth spending in that there book, dear boy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Thriftless gives, not from a beneficent pleasure in giving, but from a lazy delight in spending. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• That meeting was the occasion of my spending a few days under the same roof with her. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Resources do not depend upon gross amounts, but upon the proportion of spendings to takings. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

校对:罗尼