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Spent Completely Power Spend Pay Past 英 Spent] 美

英语单词 spent
英美音标 英 [spent] 美 [spent]
中文释义 adj.失效的;精疲力竭的
动词spend的过去式和过去分词
英语例句 (1) He fired a shot, then ejected the spent cartridge.
(2) At the end of the hot day the spent workers slept under a shady tree.
中文例句 (1) 他开了一枪,然后倒出了用过的弹夹。
(2) 经过炎热的一天,筋疲力尽的工人们在树荫下睡着了。
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."
柯林斯解释
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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]
    • Radioactive waste is simply spent fuel...

      放射性废物就是用后的燃料。

    • Several spent cartridges have already been found.

      几个空弹壳已经被找到。

    • ...spent uranium.

      用过的铀

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