spent的意思|spent的解释-里氏词典

spent [spent]

a. 用尽的, 精疲力竭的
spend的过去式和过去分词

[法] 用尽的, 失去效能的, 精疲力竭的

spent

[ adj ]

depleted of energy, force, or strength

<adj.all>

impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil

the exhausted food sources

exhausted oil wells

drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted

<adj.all>

the day's shopping left her exhausted

he went to bed dog-tired

was fagged and sweaty

the trembling of his played out limbs

felt completely washed-out

only worn-out horses and cattle

you look worn out

Spend \Spend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spent}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Spending}.] [AS. spendan (in comp.), fr. L. expendere or
dispendere to weigh out, to expend, dispense. See {Pendant},
and cf. {Dispend}, {Expend}, {Spence}, {Spencer}.]
1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to
spend money for clothing.

Spend thou that in the town. --Shak.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not
bread? --Isa. lv. 2.

2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.

I . . . am never loath
To spend my judgment. --Herbert.

3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to
spend an estate in gaming or other vices.

4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a
day idly; to spend winter abroad.

We spend our years as a tale that is told. --Ps. xc.
9.

5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away;
as, the violence of the waves was spent.

Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst.
--Knolles.

Spent \Spent\ (sp[e^]nt), a.
1. Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.

Now thou seest me
Spent, overpowered, despairing of success.
--Addison.

Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground.
--Dryden.

2. (Zo["o]l.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially
of fishes.

{Spent ball}, a ball shot from a firearm, which reaches an
object without having sufficient force to penetrate it.

The Massachusetts governor spent most of Monday in Boston, while George Bush was in Washington, leaving the campaign trail to Jackson.
Simpson, an economist who has spent ten years in the packaging industry, will be responsible for the collective performance of the group's Newcastle and Thatcham factories.
Roger Natan, a mechanical engineering professor at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, has spent 12 years developing the system in which muscles are electrically stimulated by electrodes hooked to a computer.
The agreement is expected to add a further Ecu62m to the Ecu20m the EC has spent on nuclear safety in Russia and Ukraine so far under the TACIS programme.
Or his boss, Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus who, when asked what should be done to open the EC market to Czech products, sighed: 'We spent years studying western economic textbooks.
Much of Friday's session was spent debating language permitting the District of Columbia to use local funds to pay for abortions for poor women.
He spent most of the early part of his career in a variety of engineering and management positions with General Electric Co.'s aircraft-engine businesses.
De Benedetti, who spent some $1.7 billion to raise his Societe Generale holdings, claims he and his allies control 48 percent of the company.
Workers at a Stepanakert silk factory spent two hours Monday morning cleaning a thick layer of dust from their looms and have other maintenance work to do before production is back to normal, Tass reported.
She spent five months in a body cast and wheelchair.
Little legislation has moved through the Congress so far this year, with most of the time spent on the failed plan to raise congressional pay and the Senate battle over the nomination of John Tower for defense secretary.
As part of his research for the role of Lincoln in the NBC mini-series, "Gore Vidal's Lincoln" in March 1988, Sam Waterston spent two days at the folklife center listening to 1940s recordings of natives of the Smoky Mountains.
"They feel their time is more valuably spent in the lab getting some of the details people have criticized them for not having," said Brophy, who planned to attend the sessions in Santa Fe.
Wilder challenged a decade of political wisdom by taking the offensive with commercials on abortion on television, where pro-choice and right-to-life groups have both spent heavily on commercials as well.
Of this, about $1.3 billion will be spent for research and prevention.
The jury must decide whether Boag spent the money out of greed, or to improve the estate by investing it to generate income.
In the early 1980s, Mr. Whitfield was managing Apple Computer Co.'s Macintosh ad campaign and saw firsthand the enormous sums spent on ads that got shelved after a few months.
In 1980 the government spent $265 million on this program.
He has degrees in sociology and law and has spent his life working as an official in the AD. In 1989 he was elected mayor of west Caracas, Venezuela's largest municipality.
He added that she had been described her as "emotionally spent." Martin Bailey, a communications representative of the National Council of Churches who had met Ms. Casolo in Miamia, checked out of his hotel room early today.
In such programs, formulas in the law automatically decide how much money will be spent.
The swim club's pool policy became the talk of the town, though, after it refused to admit the black church members who were part of a group of 66 who had spent the day renovating a dilapidated home.
Ronald Lauder has spent $8.5 million so far in his quest to become mayor, more than any mayoral candidate in New York history, according to a report.
Then they spent $1 million in seven days, and got the job done with less than 24 hours to spare.
But some have spent so much time in hospitals, in broken homes or at arm's length from a terrified society that social skills like speaking have not been properly developed.
The planned $1.9 billion military budget for 1989 represents 3.6 percent of the total national income, compared to 3.8 percent of national income spent on defense in 1988, Siwicki was quoted as saying.
The board was unanimous, together with the divisional directors and executives (ie, the top 100 managers of our business) on the necessity for the structures review. The majority of the executive board have spent their working lives in this business.
He was even scarier than Godzilla because he didn't look like a monster, but just like someone who spent too much time at the gym.
An estimated 19 House seats will move from northern and midwestern industrial states to the Sun Belt before 1992, and millions have been spent to maximize each party's strength in the state legislatures that will redraw the House district boundaries.
The British escapees told London's Daily Mail newspaper that they had spent 25 hours in rough seas after taking the 10-foot boat through the marshes of southern Iraq, into the Shatt-al-Arab waterway and then the gulf.

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