英语单词 | spent |
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英美音标 | [spent] |
中文释义 | adj.用尽的,精疲力尽的,失去效能的 |
vocabulary简明 | If you're spent, you are completely worn out or exhausted. Almost everyone feels completely spent after climbing a mountain or running a marathon. |
vocabulary扩展 | When you're spent, you've used up your reserves of energy, and when a physical item is spent, it's outlived its usefulness. Spent fuel, for example, has been burned and can no longer power a machine, and a rocket might power a space shuttle until it's spent and falls away. The adjective spent comes from the verb spend, "to pay out," which has the Latin root expendere, "to pay down." |
柯林斯星级 | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 Spent is the past tense and past participle of spend . 2 [ADJ 形容词]已用尽的;用过的 Spent substances or containers have been used and cannot be used again. [usu ADJ n]
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