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ill-spent

/il-spent/US // ˈɪlˈspɛnt //

花费不多,花费不赀,耗费不赀,花钱不多

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : misspent; wasted.

Examples

  • As far as I can tell, this magazine spent as much time making fun of French politicians as it did of Muslims or Islam.

  • Thus, more time is spent organization and obtaining ones free of failings.

  • Humans spent a long time domesticating cattle, and what they were trying to do, in essence, was de-domesticate them.

  • They had rarely seen their own fathers carry small children unless their mothers were ill.

  • I am fortunate that I have never been deathly ill, but whenever I have the stomach flu, I most certainly feel like I am dying.

  • These differences of interests will lead to disputes, ill blood, and finally to separation.

  • Fatigue he never knew, and on one occasion he was said to have spent thirteen days and nights in the saddle.

  • And for fear of being ill spoken of weep bitterly for a day, and then comfort thyself in thy sadness.

  • He asked what time was usually spent in determining between right and wrong, and what degree of expense?

  • G was a gamester, who had but ill-luck; H was a Hunter, who hunted a buck.