Spent

(imp. & p. p.) of Spend

(a.) Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.

(a.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes.

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• I begged a fortnight's grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I alluded to the coldness of her letters; but the few minutes we had spent together sufficiently explained the origin of this. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• If you always spent money in that way, no one would blame you, said Jo warmly. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Kitty, to her very material advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• You're very right, Sir,' interposed Ben Allen, just awake enough to know that he had spent his thousand pounds without the smallest difficulty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• All was acknowledged, and half the night spent in conversation. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• The repeating rifle now seemed an interesting possibility and large sums were spent in developing a weapon of this type. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The time, however, was spent in strengthening the intrenchments and making our position generally more secure against a sudden attack. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The days of Homer were his ideal, when a man was chief of an army of heroes, or spent his years in wonderful Odyssey. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Convinced of his security from Persia, Pericles spent the war hoard of the allies upon the beautification of his city. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Now she realised that this was the world of powerful, underworld men who spent most of their time in the darkness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• After a spacebreathless and spent in prayer, a penitent approached the confessional. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Not long ago a prominent senator remarked that he didn't know much about the country, because he had spent the last few months in Washington. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• During the intervals of pain from this grievous disease, he spent many cheerful hours, conversing in the most agreeable and instructive manner. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Any private hours in her day were usually spent in her blue-green boudoir, and she had come to be very fond of its pallid quaintness. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• We spent last winter there. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• There are sixty-three pages, and some patient monk has spent months, aye, perhaps years, in making it. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He regretted it, I am sure; he values the hours spent with you. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• He spent a fortune, but his patents were not renewed, and competition was thrown wide open. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• They were dangerous now only to their own side, and the papal representative spent an unpleasant night hiding from them in the forest. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Yesterday we spent three or four hours in the Vatican, again, that wonderful world of curiosities. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It is not without significance that both Gilbert and Harvey had spent years in Italy, where, as we have implied, the experimental method of scientific research was early developed. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• About ten or a dozen years ago, before her marriage, she had spent a considerable time in that very part of Derbyshire to which he belonged. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Four fine mornings successively were spent in this manner, in shewing the Crawfords the country, and doing the honours of its finest spots. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Some gloomy hours had she spent in the interval. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I spent no end of time in making out these things--Helicon, now. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The mere fact that Edison spent years of his life in developing that process counted for nothing. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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