SPEND

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Traducere în limba română

spend, past şi part. trec. spent, verb A. tranzitiv

1. a cheltui; a consuma; a întrebuinţa; a irosi, a risipi; a sacrifica, a jertfi;

to spend on a cheltui pe; a consuma / a întrebuinţa pentru;

to spend much trouble on smth. a-şi da multă osteneală cu ceva;

to spend one’s blood a-şi vărsa sângele;

to spend one's breath a-şi strica / a-şi bate gura de pomană;

to spend one’s last a cheltui (până la) ultimul ban.

2. a petrece (timpul);

to spend a sleepless night a petrece o noapte albă, a avea o noapte de nesomn, a nu (putea) dormi o noapte întreagă;

to spend one’s time (in) doing something a-şi petrece timpul făcând ceva;

to spend Sunday in the country a-şi petrece duminica la ţară.

3. a epuiza, a consuma (în întregime), a termina, a isprăvi; a secătui; a vlăgui, a istovi;

to spend and be spent a cheltui şi bani şi energie / putere / trudă;

to spend one’s fortune a-şi toca averea;

to spend one’s strength a se trudi, a se munci, a-şi cheltui energia / puterea / puterile.

spend, past şi part. trec. spent, verb B. reflexiv

1. a se epuiza, a se istovi; a se consuma, a se trudi, a se munci, a-şi cheltui energia / puterea / puterile.

2. (despre furtună, mânie) a se calma, a se potoli;

the storm has spent itself furtuna s-a potolit.

spend past şi part. trec. spent, verb C. intranzitiv

1. a cheltui; a fi cheltuitor / risipitor / mână spartă.

2. a se uza; a se consuma; a se termina, a se isprăvi;

candles spend fast in a draught lumânările ard repede în curent.

3. (despre mine, zăcăminte) a fi bogat, a da o producţie bună, a produce mult.

4. (despre peşti) a depune icre.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

They all spent the evening together at Thorpe's.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Your sister, perhaps, may be prevailed on to spend the day with us, and I shall certainly be at home.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Once Mars moves into Scorpio on November 18, you will spend more money than usual.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

He may spend the evening with his dear William Larkins now if he likes.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

He did not know how he could spend it all.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

As for me, I shall spend the night here in this churchyard in my own way.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I don't make much, but I don't spend much.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It is so pleasant that we spend our evenings talking there when too tired with our day's work to go out.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I had also made myself neat, and had now the afternoon before me to spend as I would.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

“You will spend the night here?” I said.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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