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vt. 度过，消磨（时光）；花费；浪费；用尽
vi. 花钱；用尽，耗尽
n. 预算

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Britons have cut their spending on itits prices have gone up over the yearsits quality has seen marked improvementBritons have developed the habit of savingIt will expand in time.

She was also spending a lot of time on Facebook.

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

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

The cost for saving our civilization would be considerably less than the world's current military spending.

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.

They spend that money on other things, which stimulates the economy.

The effect of falling oil prices on consumer spending.

People are not spending all the money they save on gas.

Many oil producers built up huge reserve funds when prices were high, so when prices fall they will draw on their reserves to support government spending and subsidies ( ' , 补贴) for their consumers.

Consumers will spend their savings from cheap oil on other commodities.

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.

If you spend a little time digging for the right part-time jobs, you’ll save yourself time when you find a job that leaves you with enough time to get your school work done, too.

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

Spending money is so fast and easy.

Many spend their lives trying to avoid arguments.

Isn't it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink ( ' , 眨眼 ) of an eye? Doesn't a wallet—that time-honoured Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness—represent something that matters? But I'll leave the economics to the experts.

If you spend much time with educators and policy makers, you'll hear a lot of the following words: standards, results, skills, self-control, accountability, and so on.

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

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.

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

ConAgra’s Research and Development staff spent a year working under the instruction: whatever the cost, don’t sacrifice taste.

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.

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.

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

If you spend a little time digging for the right part-time jobs, you'll save yourself time when you find a job that leaves you with enough time to get your school work done, too.

If you spend much time with educators and policy makers, you' ll hear a lot of the following words: "standards," "results," "skills," "self-control," "accountability" and so on.

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.

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

Some people wonder why countries spend millions of dollars on space projects.

Sometimes its employees are released from their daily jobs for weeks and spend their time interacting in the innovation facility instead.

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.

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

They have seriously polluted the places where birds spend winter.

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

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

The college spending analysis justifies the outsourcing plan.

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

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.

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.

Its flagship stores in major U.S. cities depend heavily on international tourist spending, which shrank at many retailers due to a strong dollar.

It is backed by a campus spending analysis.

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

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 by the state.

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.

Can you tell us how you first became interested in this subject matter?( ' , 9 ) Wh e n f a c i n g a n e w situation, some people tend to rehearse their defeat by spending too much time anticipating the worst.

They have to spend lots of time choosing products.

The money spent on kitchens has risen with their status.

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

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

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 perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.

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.

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

We need more funding and more effort to return these languages to everyday use, says Fred Nowuski of the National Museum of the American Indian, We are making progress but money needs to be spent on revitalising languages, not just documenting them.

Today, the average American spends 8.

There is no clarification of how the money will be spent.

For the study, 325 employees spent six months taking part in ROWE, while a control group of 334 employees continued with their normal workflow.

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.

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.

And 29%, the invisible risk group, scored high on three in particular: They spent five hours a day or more on electronic devices.

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

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.

They spend a lot of time building strong connections with businesses.

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.

Students who take more challenging classes and spend more time studying do learn more.

Per-capita local government spendingIn 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 rags-to-riches story.

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

"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

And cutting the working week would be conducive to the individual, giving millions of workers more time to spend as they see fit.

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

At 62, you continue to spend a large percentage of your life touring.

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.

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.

But that doesn't mean that all students will do amazingly, if they just spend all their time reading from a textbook.

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

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

Pipitone claims that healthy adults need not spend money on protein supplements.

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.

The children spend longer watching the video showing the researcher they hadn't met.

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

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

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.

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.

Try to not have lunch at your desk, but instead spend time outside or with your friends一not talking about work.

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.

We may instead find ourselves feeling guilty about the time we didn't spend watching our children grow all with our loved ones, or travelling or on the cultural or leisure suits that bring us happiness.

We spend a great deal of time studying history, Hawking said, which, let's face it, is mostly the history of stupidity.

We spend our days looking at ideas from journalists, writing copy for the magazine and website and editing.

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

At first, john spent his time hunting for fun.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Companies spend millions hiring top business people.

Considering how much time people spend in offices, it is important that work spaces be well designed.

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

Firstly, they spent more time in search food.

Further, Dallas arts and arts-based businesses produce $298 for every dollar the city spends on arts programming and facilities.

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

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.

He spent much of his childhood in France where he spent many hours each day outdoors painting pictures.

How did the man spend his weekend?

How much time will the man probably spend exercising weekly?

How will Susan spend most of her time in France?

However, I spend nearly two-thirds of my time doing research.

I don't think I want to spend a year and a half out there on my own.

I read somewhere that we spend a full third of our lives waiting.

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

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

I'm going to do a one-month course at a language school and spend the rest of the time traveling.

Investing in time for parenting and raising relationships is money well spent.

It's your dad's idea to spend christmas at this country hotel.

Jim has retired, but he still remembers the happy time spent with his students.

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.

Let him spend a meaningful summer.

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

Much time spent sitting at a desk, office workers are generally troubled by health problems.

My brothers can no doubt remember hours spent cleaning the house.

Naomi and Steve met every other week and spent hours together.

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.

Over the years, Parisian cafes have fallen victim to changes in the French lifestyle-longer working hours, a fast food boom and a younger generation's desire to spend more time at home.

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.

People should spend more time with their family.

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.

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.

She was too upset to spend much time at the real museum.

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

So today I want to give you some wisdom about how to make the most of the time you spend in the kitchen.

Spend more time improving their own lives.

Sports team owners spend millions of dollars attracting top talent.

Students need to spend at least as much time with their on-line course work as they would in a face-to-face classroom course.

That routine meant dad was home early to spend the evening with mum and me.

The freezing northeast hasn't been a terribly fun place to spend time this winter.

The government spent nearly 30 years coming up with a plan to reintroduce the wolves.

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

This is despite evidence that a dollar spent on risk-reduction saves at least two on reconstruction.

Time spent for preparation raises the quality of training.

Unlike fast-food places, fine dining shops prefer customers to stay longer and spend.

We also need to rethink our attitudes about spending.

We certainly do spend a good deal of our time waiting.

When classical, rather than pop, music was playing, diners spent more.

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

With her dad's permission, she spent the next two years researching online and conducting trials to get a recipe that was both tasty and tooth-friendly.

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.

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, it is about 15%.

“Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on,” he claimed.

What motivated him, we were to understand, was his zeal for “fundamental fairness”—protecting the taxpayer, controlling spending and ensuring that only the most deserving claimants received their benefits.

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.

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

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

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.

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

First, consumers may take CSR spending as a “signal” that a company’s products are of high quality.

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.

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

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?

Especially, firms in happy places spend more on R and D .

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.

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.

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 .

Other birds flying in the up wash experience reduced drag, and spend less energy propelling themselves.

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

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