高考But according to Anderson, the amount of time spent watching television is not related to reading ability.

但安德森认为，看电视的时间与阅读能力无关。

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级A child's ability to become deeply absorbed in something, and derive intense pleasure from that absorption, is something adults spend the rest of their lives trying to return to.

孩子能够深深地专注于某件事，并从中获得强烈的快乐，这是成年人余生都在努力恢复的能力。

2015年12月阅读原文

高考Get smart about the people who you spend your time with.

对与你共度时光的人要聪明一点。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 七选五 原文

六级There are usually two parents, who spend a lot of time reading to children and worrying about their anxiety levels and hectic schedules.

通常有两个父母，他们花很多时间给孩子们读书，担心他们的焦虑程度和繁忙的日程安排。

2017年6月阅读原文

考研But historically we have spent about 12 percent of our days contemplating the longer term.

但从历史上看，我们每天大约有12%的时间在思考更长期的问题。

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研But it is really happiness that's linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities explain why firms there spend more on R and D?

但真正与投资相关的是幸福感，或者幸福城市的其他因素能解释为什么那里的企业在研发上花费更多吗？

2016年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

高考But above all, we want to spend some time with you and your family.

但最重要的是，我们想花些时间与你和你的家人在一起。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

四级Since 1977, I have spent much more time abroad than in the United States.

自1977年以来，我在国外的时间比在美国的时间多得多。

2015年12月听力原文

六级Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago.

巴雷特想知道缺乏实物货币是否真的会导致一个人花费更多，因此她决定在几个月前进行一项实验。

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

四级At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstracted.

在你花钱的商店里，钱越来越被抽象化了。

2015年12月阅读原文

考研And after going to school for 12 years, it doesn't feel natural to spend a year doing something that isn't academic.

在上了12年学后，花一年时间做一些非学术性的事情是不自然的。

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Is surgery, radiation or careful monitoring best for prostate ( ' , 前列腺) cancer? Is the latest and most expensive cholesterol-lowering drug any better than its common competitors? The pending bills would spend additional money to accelerate this effort.

手术、放疗或仔细监测对前列腺最有效吗，前列腺) 巨蟹座最新最昂贵的降胆固醇药物是否比其普通竞争对手更好？悬而未决的法案将花费额外的资金来加速这一努力。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级The pending bills would spend additional money to accelerate this effort.

悬而未决的法案将花费额外的资金来加速这一努力。

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

考研The Dutch giant Elsevier, which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world, made profits of more than £900m last year, while UK universities alone spent more than £210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access their own publicly f

荷兰巨头爱思唯尔（Elsevier）声称发表了世界上25%的科学论文，去年盈利超过9亿英镑，而仅英国大学在2016年就花了2.1亿英镑让研究人员能够公开发表论文

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研The largest firms in America and Britain together spend more than $15 billion a year on CSR, according to an estimate by EPG, a consulting firm.

根据咨询公司EPG的估计，美国和英国最大的公司每年在企业社会责任方面的支出总计超过150亿美元。

2016年考研阅读原文

四级I do not think that we spend nearly enough time trying to concentrate on achieving a sort of calmness, a sort of contentment in a mental and spiritual way, which was identified by these people as the highest form of happiness and pleasure.

我不认为我们花了足够多的时间去努力实现一种平静，一种精神和精神上的满足，这被这些人认为是幸福和快乐的最高形式。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级Last week I came across a couple of old school friends and we spend the entire journey in the bar.

上周我遇到了几个老同学，我们整个旅程都在酒吧里度过。

2014年6月听力原文

六级Twenge and her colleagues also found that across the key years of 2013-16, well-being was indeed lowest in years where adolescents spent more time online, on social media, and reading news online, and when more youth in the United States had smartphones.

Twenge和她的同事还发现，在2013-2016年的关键年份，青少年上网、社交媒体和在线阅读新闻的时间更多，而美国有更多年轻人拥有智能手机的年份，幸福感确实最低。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级The interracial roommates spent less time together, and had fewer joint activities than the white pairs.

与白人室友相比，跨种族室友在一起的时间更少，而且联合活动也更少。

2012年6月听力原文

六级8 hours at work daily, and the majority of working professionals spend additional hours checking in with work during evenings, weekends and even vacations.

每天工作8小时，大多数职业人士在晚上、周末甚至假期都要花额外的时间来报到。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Today, the average American spends 8.8 hours at work daily, and the majority of working professionals spend additional hours checking in with work during evenings, weekends and even vacations.

如今，美国人平均每天工作8.8小时，而大多数职业人士在晚上、周末甚至假期都要花额外的时间来报到。

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级Blance spent a week in Hong Kong and photographed more than 60 signs; 22 of them appear in the series that capture the signs lighting up lonely streets—an approach that makes it easy to admire their colors and craftsmanship.

布兰斯在香港呆了一个星期，XAA0拍摄了60多个迹象；其中22个出现在该系列中，捕捉到了照亮孤独街道的标志——Anxa0的方法使人们很容易欣赏它们的颜色和工艺。

2018年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级Many admissions officers say they spend less than a couple of minutes on each application, including the essay

许多招生官员表示，他们在每份申请（包括论文）上花费的时间不到几分钟

2013年12月阅读原文

六级And the New Yorkers who spent a bundle on an outdoor hot tub now admit they rarely use it, because we can’t afford to heat it in winter.

纽约人花了一大笔钱买了一个室外热水浴盆，现在他们承认他们很少使用它，因为我们负担不起冬天的取暖费用。

2016年12月听力原文

考研Researchers admit that their study does not answer the question of how much businesses ought to spend on CSR.

研究人员承认，他们的研究并没有回答企业应该在企业社会责任上花费多少的问题。

2016年考研阅读原文

四级Yet moments like this one are just the kind of intense absorption and pleasure adults spend the rest of their lives seeking.

然而，像这样的时刻正是成年人余生所追求的那种强烈的专注和快乐。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级The summer after 7th grade, students spend three weeks on a college campus studying advanced math for seven hours a day.

七年级后的夏天，学生们在大学校园里花了三周的时间每天学习七个小时的高等数学。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级However, the "screen time" hypothesis, advanced by researchers such as Jean Twenge, is that electronic devices and excessive time spent online may have reversed these trends in recent years, causing problems for young people's psychological health.

然而，Jean Twenge等研究人员提出的“屏幕时间”假说认为，近年来电子设备和上网时间过长可能扭转了这些趋势，给年轻人的心理健康带来了问题。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级The amount spent on interactive advertising on television is still small.

在电视互动广告上的花费仍然很少。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Instead, Rodriguez solicits residents' advice on what he should get on his cheeseburger and how he should spend the afternoon.

相反，罗德里格斯征求了当地居民的意见，询问他应该在奶酪汉堡包上吃什么，以及如何度过下午。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

高考Once, after a trip to Hollywood, I returned to Australia so depressed and spent months in my bedroom painting, listening to Eckhart Tolle's music and trying to find myself again.

有一次，在去好莱坞旅行后，我沮丧地回到澳大利亚，花了几个月的时间在卧室里画画，听埃克哈特·托尔的音乐，试图重新找回自我。

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读表达 原文

四级Moses spent three hours looking after the bees and was stung five times.

摩西花了三个小时照顾蜜蜂，被蛰了五次。

2017年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

四级Private courier companies, which have more dollars to spend, use their expertise in logistics to help revitalize damaged areas after a disaster.

私人快递公司可以花更多的钱，他们利用他们在物流方面的专业知识帮助受灾地区在灾后恢复活力。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

考研After bills, Tony has ￡60 a week to spend, ￡40 of which goes on food, but 10 years ago he was earning ￡130,000 a year working in corporate communications and eating at London's best restaurants at least twice a week.

在比尔之后，托尼￡每周花60英镑，￡其中40个用于食物，但10年前他还在挣钱￡每年有13万人在公司通讯部工作，每周至少在伦敦最好的餐厅就餐两次。

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty's people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, miss.

美容师、调酒师、钢琴手和戴着紫色帽子的人，Welty的人来自与老朋友一起度过的下午，来自她家乡密西西比州杰克逊的街头散步。

2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级Internet gamers spend countless hours competing in games against people from all over the world.

网络游戏玩家花费无数的时间在游戏中与来自世界各地的人竞争。

2010年6月阅读原文

四级Agents and fashion houses who hire models with a BMI under 18 could pay $82,000 in fines and spend up to 6 months in jail.

经纪人和时装公司如果雇佣体重指数低于18的模特，可能会支付82000美元的罚款，并将被判6个月监禁。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires——nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.

2015年，美国林业局首次将其55亿美元年度预算的一半以上用于灭火，几乎是20年前的两倍。

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级He said "Monsanto should not be able, just because they've got billions of dollars to spend on legal fees, to try to terrify farmers into obeying their agreements by massive force and threats.

他说，“孟山都不应该仅仅因为他们有数十亿美元的法律费用，就试图用大规模的武力和威胁恐吓农民遵守他们的协议。

2013年12月阅读原文

四级The airlander 10 spent nearly 2 hours in the air, having taken off from Cardington airfield in Bedfordshire.

airlander 10从贝德福德郡的卡丁顿机场起飞，在空中飞行了近2个小时。

2018年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

四级I had spent two years cultivating this community, and it had become successful very fast, within six months, but I was facing the prospect of losing it all.

我花了两年时间培养这个社区，它在六个月内很快取得了成功，但我面临着失去一切的前景。

2017年6月阅读原文

高考Last year, I spent all my time looking for a job where, without dealing with the public, I could work alone, but still have a team to talk to.

去年，我花了我所有的时间寻找一份工作，在这份工作中，我可以不与公众打交道，独自工作，但仍然有一个团队可以与我交谈。

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

六级While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.

当许多鸟类沿着众所周知的路线前往气候温暖的地区时，其他鸟类则短暂停留，在垃圾填埋场过冬，以食物垃圾和大量在垃圾堆上繁衍生息的昆虫为食。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级California has spent years preparing for "The Big One"—the inevitable earthquake that will undoubtedly unleash all kinds of havoc along the famous San Andreas fault (断层).

加州花了数年时间为“大地震”做准备，这场不可避免的地震无疑会在著名的圣安德烈亚斯断层沿线引发各种破坏(断层).

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

四级So someone leaving university who already has the skills needed to work in an industrial lab has far more potential in the job market than someone who has spent all their time on a narrow research project

因此，那些已经具备在工业实验室工作所需技能的大学毕业生在就业市场上的潜力要远远大于那些将全部时间花在一个狭窄的研究项目上的人

2010年12月阅读原文

六级The shift, little noticed outside the medical establishment but already controversial inside it, suggests that doctors are starting to redefine their roles, from being concerned exclusively about individual patients to exerting influence on how healthcare dollars are spent.

这一转变在医疗机构之外几乎没有引起注意，但在医疗机构内部已经引起了争议，这表明医生正在开始重新定义自己的角色，从只关心个别患者到对医疗费用的使用施加影响。

2015年12月阅读原文

高考I remember back in high school I spent most of my day at school since I also played a team sport.

我记得在高中的时候，我在学校度过了一天的大部分时间，因为我也参加了团体运动。

2018年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

高考Particular scents also have an effect: diners who got the scent of lavender stayed longer and spent more than those who smelled lemon, or no scent.

特定的气味也有影响：闻到薰衣草香味的就餐者比闻到柠檬味或没有香味的用餐者停留时间更长，花费更多。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级Also, a large amount of public funds is spent on roads.

此外，大量公共资金用于道路建设。

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级Although going to college is supposed to be a full-time job, students spent.

虽然上大学应该是一份全职工作，但学生们花了很多时间。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Although going to college is supposed to be a full-time job, students spent, on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

尽管上大学应该是一份全职工作，但学生们平均每周只花12到14个小时学习，许多人在整个学期中都没有做大量的阅读和写作。

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

四级PepsiCo is to spend billions of dollars to develop drinks and snacks and reformulate existing ones with lower sugar, salt and fat, as consumers demand healthier options and regulatory pressure intensifies amid an obesity epidemic.

百事公司将花费数十亿美元开发饮料和零食，并用较低的糖、盐和脂肪重新配制现有的饮料和零食，因为消费者需要更健康的选择，而在肥胖流行的情况下，监管压力加剧。

2018年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

高考But the amount of time spent in reading each session has declined, from closer to an hour or more to closer to a half hour per session.

但每节课花在阅读上的时间有所减少，从每节课近一个小时或更多到近半个小时。

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Project managers evaluate the performance of the team members in terms of what they produce for projects, rather than the amount of time they spend on them.

项目经理根据团队成员为项目所做的工作而不是他们花在项目上的时间来评估团队成员的绩效。

2016年高考英语上海卷 完形填空 原文

六级They found that adolescents who spent a very small amount of time on digital devices—a couple of hours a week—had the highest well-being.

他们发现，在数字设备上花费很少时间的青少年（每周几小时）的幸福感最高。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.

社会学家说，造成这种差异的部分原因是，低收入的父母花在音乐课或幼儿园上的钱少了，带孩子去博物馆或参加学校活动的时间安排也不灵活。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级During the hours spent waiting in vain to see a bone doctor, I decided to take another track and try acupuncture.

在徒劳地等待看骨科医生的几个小时里，我决定走另一条路，试试针灸。

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

考研In another case, American archaeologists Rene Million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.

在另一个案例中，美国考古学家雷内·百万（Rene Million）和乔治·考吉尔（George Cowgill）花了数年时间系统地绘制了墨西哥山谷中的整个特奥蒂瓦坎（Teotihuacan）城市的地图，该城市靠近现在的墨西哥城。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研He's feeling positive, but he'll carry on blogging-not about eating as cheaply as you can—"there are so many people in a much worse state, with barely any money to spend on food"—but eating well on a budget.

他感觉很积极，但他会继续写博客，不谈吃得尽可能便宜——“有那么多人处于更糟糕的状态，几乎没有钱花在食物上”——而是在预算内吃得好。

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Thinking of time as a resource to be maximized means you approach it instrumentally, judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal.

把时间看作是一种可以最大化的资源，意味着你要用工具来对待它，判断任何一个给定的时刻是否花得好，只要它能朝着某个目标前进。

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考With that, I spent eight to ten hours a day with Joe in the hospital, doing anything and everything I could to ease his discomfort.

有了这些，我每天花八到十个小时和乔在医院里，尽我所能减轻他的不适。

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级Careme would often spend his free afternoons at the nearby National library reading book on art and architecture.

Careme经常在附近的国家图书馆度过他空闲的下午，阅读有关艺术和建筑的书籍。

2018年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

高考Gin spent five months in early 2015 exploring the most remote corners of this area, which sits on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, with half its population of only 250, 000 living in its capital, Cayenne.

2015年初，金恩花了五个月的时间探索该地区最偏远的角落，该地区位于亚马逊河雨林的边缘，其人口只有25万的一半居住在首都卡宴。

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级Many spend their lives trying to avoid arguments.

许多人一生都在试图避免争吵。

2015年12月阅读原文

考研These two academics use an array of behavioral research to show that the most rewarding ways to spend money can be counter-intuitive.

这两位学者通过一系列的行为研究表明，最有回报的花钱方式可能是违反直觉的。

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute found that birds following traditional migration routes were more likely to die than German storks that flew only as far as northern Morocco, and spent the winter there on rubbish dumps.

马克斯·普朗克研究所的安德里亚·弗莱克发现，遵循传统迁徙路线的鸟类比只飞到摩洛哥北部、在垃圾堆上过冬的德国鹳更容易死亡。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级They just ask for one questionnaire to be sent out, for example, so the time you spend on an ad-hoc project tends to be fairly short.

例如，他们只要求发送一份调查问卷，所以你花在临时项目上的时间往往相当短。

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

六级We "stop" work sometimes at 5 pm, but then we spend the night wrestling with solutions to work problems, talking about our work over dimer, and falling asleep thinking about how much work we'll do tomorrow.

我们有时会在下午5点“停止”工作，但之后我们会花一整晚的时间思考工作问题的解决方案，谈论我们在dimer上的工作，然后入睡，想着明天我们要做多少工作。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级Guy Grant, now a research associate at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge, spent two years working for a pharmaceutical (制药的) company before returning to university as a post-doctoral researcher.

Guy Grant现在是剑桥大学联合利华分子信息中心的研究助理，他花了两年的时间在一家制药公司工作。制药的) 公司在返回大学之前担任博士后研究员。

2010年12月阅读原文

高考The microorganisms from our bodies grow uncontrollably on surfaces of the international space station, so astronauts spend hours cleaning them up each week.

来自我们身体的微生物在国际空间站的表面无法控制地生长，因此宇航员每周花数小时清理它们。

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考At first, john spent his time hunting for fun.

起初，约翰把时间花在打猎上。

2019年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

六级In poor families, meanwhile, children tend to spend their time at home or with extended family.

与此同时，在贫困家庭，孩子们倾向于呆在家里或与大家庭在一起。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级But now these segments are looking at slower growth curves – or shrinking markets in some cases – as consumers are not as eager to spend money on new gadgets.

但现在，这些细分市场正面临增长曲线放缓——或者在某些情况下出现市场萎缩——因为消费者并不急于花钱购买新产品。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Bearded Russian priests offer regular services at the Orthodox church for the 16 or so Russian speakers who spend the winter at the base, largely polar scientists in fields like glaciology and meteorology.

留着胡须的俄罗斯牧师定期在东正教教堂为在基地过冬的16名左右讲俄语的人提供服务，这些人主要是冰川学和气象学领域的极地科学家。

2016年12月阅读原文

高考Sports team owners spend millions of dollars attracting top talent.

运动队老板花费数百万美元吸引顶尖人才。

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

四级At McDonald's, customers will spend on average 3 minutes and 9 seconds from the time they place their orders until they receive their food.

在麦当劳，顾客从下订单到收到食物的平均时间为3分9秒。

2018年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

四级Kodak is an example of a firm that was very much aware that they had to adapt, and spent a lot of money trying to do so, but ultimately failed.

柯达就是这样一个例子：一家公司非常清楚自己必须适应，为此花了很多钱，但最终失败了。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级We're unlikely to spend our last moments regretting that we didn't spend enough of our lives slaving away at work.

我们不太可能在生命的最后时刻后悔我们没有花足够的时间在工作上。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研But most people will come away from this book believing it was money well spent.

但大多数人离开这本书时都会认为这是一笔值得花的钱。

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Diners at bad tables — next to the kitchen door, say — spent nearly as much as others but soon fled.

比如说，坐在厨房门旁边的劣质餐桌上的食客花费几乎和其他食客一样多，但很快就逃之夭夭。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级Tom does not think a babysitter can replace a mother and thinks it's a bad idea for the children to spend so much time with someone who's not part of the family.

汤姆认为保姆不能代替母亲，他认为孩子们花这么多时间和不属于家庭的人在一起是个坏主意。

2010年6月听力原文

六级I spend most of my time studying the big bang theory and where our universe came from.

我花了大部分时间研究大爆炸理论和我们的宇宙从何而来。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

四级Meeting people was the thing, and you went to coffee bars where you met friends and spent the evening.

你去了咖啡馆，在那里你认识了朋友，度过了一个晚上。

2017年6月听力原文

四级I couldn't bear to spend three hours sitting in a train every day.

我不能忍受每天花三个小时坐在火车上。

2014年6月听力原文

四级Loosely managed teams can become hotbeds of distraction—employees routinely complain that they can't get their work done because they are forced to spend too much time in meetings or compelled to work in noisy offices.

管理松散的团队可能成为分散注意力的温床。员工经常抱怨他们无法完成工作，因为他们被迫花太多时间开会或被迫在嘈杂的办公室工作。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级But on the subject of obesity, she pointed out that consumers' lifestyles have changed significantly, with many people being more sedentary (久坐不动的) not least because more time is spent in front of computers.

但在谈到肥胖问题时，她指出，消费者的生活方式已经发生了重大变化，许多人更加久坐不动(久坐不动的) 不仅仅是因为更多的时间花在电脑前。

2018年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

四级The Texas A&M Travel Institute found that rush-hour travelers spent extra 42 hours on the road last year because of travel delays.

德克萨斯州A&M旅游研究所发现，由于交通延误，去年高峰时段的旅行者在路上额外花费了42个小时。

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

六级She found she did spend a lot less money because it is incredibly hard to predict how much cash one is going to need—she was forever drawing money out of Cashpoints.

她发现自己花的钱确实少了很多，因为很难预测一个人需要多少现金。她一直在用现金点取款。

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研The point of a style upgrade isn’t to become more vain or to spend more time passing over what to wear.

时尚升级的目的不是变得更加虚荣，也不是花更多的时间来考虑该穿什么。

2016年考研阅读原文

考研The point of a style upgrade isn't to become more vain or to spend more time fussing over what to wear.

时尚升级的目的不是变得更加虚荣，也不是花更多的时间在穿着上大惊小怪。

2016年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Before writing Metamorphosis, Merian spent decades documenting European plants and insects that she published in a series of books.

在写《变形记》之前，梅里安花了几十年时间记录欧洲的植物和昆虫，并在一系列书籍中发表。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

高考So he spent time improving his painting skills and began to sell his paintings.

因此，他花时间提高绘画技巧，并开始出售他的画。

2019年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

六级The concern seems to be that open advocates don't spend their time being as productive as possible.

令人担忧的是，开放的倡导者并没有把时间花在尽可能提高效率上。

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级For example, years when people spent more time with friends were better years for well-being and followed by better years.

例如，人们花更多时间和朋友在一起的年份对幸福来说是更好的年份，然后是更好的年份。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

考研It is far better to spend money on experiences, say Ms Dunn and Mr Norton, like interesting trips, unique meals or even going to the cinema.

邓恩女士和诺顿先生说，把钱花在体验上要好得多，比如有趣的旅行、独特的饮食，甚至去看电影。

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研It seems most people would be better off if they could shorten their commutes to work, spend more time with friends and family and less of it watching television .

似乎大多数人如果能缩短上班时间，花更多时间与朋友和家人在一起，少看电视，生活会更好。

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考With food our biggest weekly household expenses, Susanna and Matt spend time with a different family each week.

苏珊娜和马特每周花在不同家庭的时间是因为食物是我们每周最大的家庭开销。

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

六级And these big food corporations have so much money to spend on clever tactic design to make young children want to buy their products.

这些大型食品公司有很多钱可以花在聪明的策略设计上，让孩子们想买他们的产品。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

六级"She was a scientist on the level with a lot of people we spend a lot of time talking about," said Kay Etheridge, a biologist at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania who has been studying the scientific history of Merian's work. "She didn't do as much to ch

宾夕法尼亚州葛底斯堡学院生物学家凯·埃瑟里奇（Kay Etheridge）一直在研究梅里安工作的科学史，他说：“她是一位科学家，与我们花了很多时间谈论的许多人处于同一水平。”她没有对他做那么多

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级They have seriously polluted the places where birds spend winter.

它们严重污染了鸟类过冬的地方。

2017年6月阅读原文