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spending

英 ['spendɪŋ] 美['spɛndɪŋ]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

n. 花费；开销
v. 花费；度过（spend的现在分词形式）

考试真题

What eventually made Carla Toebe realize she was spending too much time on the Internet?

Many more people in the States are spending their free time surfing the Web, e- mafling friends or playing games online.

But I would have enjoyed spending my evenings in that environment, discussing new ideas, building a new world.

However, Dr Mehmood Khan,chief scientific officer, said the company had doubled research and development spending in the past five years and was "committed to sustaining investment", adding that companies cannot cost-cut their way to increasing sales.

I want to make sure that older adults are still able to enjoy their old age, and that they're not spending time in hospital with infections, feeling unwell and being generally weak.

I'm expected to attend too many meetings and I seem to be spending a lot of my time doing unnecessary paperwork.

In the last year alone, despite an increase in the UK population and a subsequent rise in the number of households, sales of toilet paper fell by 2%, with the average household reducing their toilet roll spending from £43 in 2014 to £41 in 2015.

Isn't it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink of an eye?

She was also spending a lot of time on Facebook.

Shoppers in the UK are spending less money on toilet paper to save money, research has shown.

The immediate cause for the collapse has been Britain's slide toward recession, which has cut into consumer spending.

They are also spending more time working with each other rather than reporting upwards.

While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy – in theory at least – when it comes to paper quality.

Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.

For a middle-class, husband-and-wife family (average pretax income in 2009: $76,250), spending per child is about $12,000 a year

With inflation the family's spending on a child will total $286,050 by age

They are a vital part of an array of data that we use to assess if we're doing well or doing badly, and that in turn shapes government policies and corporate budgets and personal spending decisions.

They save up cash and desperately cut spending

Spending on such "durables" dropped at a 12% annual rate in 2008's third quarter, a 20% rate in the fourth.

There is no chance that will change anytime soon, even if the government creates a better social safety net and successfully encourages greater consumer spending.

To date, the US has seemed unable to see the consequences of spending so much more than is taken in

Carr points out, that after spending time in quiet rural settings, subjects "exhibit greater attentiveness, stronger memory and generally improved cognition.

But we have never built a spreadsheet (电子数据表) outlining the financial benefits of this, and I have never had to justify the amount I am spending to the company's founders.

Americans are paying down debt, saving more, and spending more carefully

By far the most effective method to restrain pension spending is to give people the opportunity to work longer, because it increases tax revenues and reduces spending on pensions at the same time.

Those who are thinking their time did reverse spending time socializing instead of working.

Well, you know, spending too much time indoors with all that artificial lighting can do that to you.

But overall, we suspect that spending would come down through elimination of a lot of unnecessary or even dangerous tests and treatments.

In an email sent Monday to college presidents in the Tennessee Board of Regents system, outgoing Chancellor John Morgan said an internal analysis showed that each campus' spending on facilities management fell well below the industry standards identified

In other words, communities with high levels of per-capita income growth, high percentages of two-parent families, and high local government spending — which may stand for good schools — are the most likely to help poor children relive Horatio Alger's rag

In the 1960s, the United States devoted nearly 17% of discretionary spending to research and development, reaping decades of economic growth.

In the 1980s, the government cut spending.

Meanwhile, Macy's has simply struggled to lure consumers who are more interested in spending on travel or dining out than on new clothes or accessories.

Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often

She decided that she was going to try to just use cash for two weeks to make all of her essential purchases and see what that would do to her spending.

Spending fell by 10% in the first half of the year.

Tennessee's technical and community colleges will not outsource management of their facilities to a private company, a decision one leader said was bolstered by ananalysis of spending at each campus.

Those spending 10-19 hours per week on their devices were 41 percent more likely to be unhappy than lower-frequency users.

When facing a new situation, some people tend to rehearse their defeat by spending too much time anticipating the worst.

While Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday all saw record spending online, in-store sales plunged over the holiday weekend.

But unlike school friends, 16-year-old Sarah is not spending half-term resting.

If anyone had told me three years ago that I would be spending most of my weekends camping.

Meanwhile, things that you might expect to discourage spending— "bad" tables, crowding, high prices — don't necessarily.

Repairing our possessions and changing our spending habits may be the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish and take care of our environment.

We also need to rethink our attitudes about spending.

At the very least, it has awoken us from our national fever dream of easy riches and bigger houses, and put a necessary end to an era of reckless personal spending.

During the decade before the economic crisis, spending on legal services in America grew twice as fast as inflation.

During the late 1990s, national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate-varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, i

first, consumers may take CSR spending as a "signal" that a company's products are of high quality.

Germany thinks the euro must be saved by stricter rules on borrowing, spending and competitiveness, backed by quasi-automatic sanctions for governments that do not obey.

Impulsive spending isn't an option, so plan your week's menu in advance, making shopping lists for your ingredients in their exact quantities.

In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirst's sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable.

The comprehensive spending review offers an opportunity for the government to help rectify this.

The Labour party has recently announced that it will retain a large part of the coalition's spending plans if it returns to power.

Those things might be social, sporting, creative or completely random -It doesn't matter, so long as they're enjoyable, and not likely to have negative side effects, such as drinking too much alcohol or going on a wild spending spree if you're on a tight

Yet the link between feeling good and spending money on others can be seen among rich and poor people around the world, and scarcity enhances the pleasure of most things for most people.