spare
spare 英 [speə(r)] 美 [sper]
v. 分出,匀出; 饶恕,宽恕(被匀了出来);不惜 adj. 闲置的;备用的 n. 备用品
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- Spare describes something that is extra. If you have a spare tire for your bike you can replace a flat, and if there's enough change in your pocket you can spare some to patch a friend's tire.
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- v. 分出,匀出; 饶恕,宽恕(被匀了出来);不惜
- adj. 闲置的;备用的
- n. 备用品
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1. I'm afraid I haven't got any spare cash.
恐怕我手头没有多余的现金。
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2. a spare key,a spare tyre
备用钥匙╱轮胎
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3. He's studying music in his spare time.
他在空闲时间学音乐。
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4. Could you spare one of your staff to help us out?
你能不能从你手下抽一个人过来帮帮我们?
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5. He wanted to spare his mother any anxiety.
他不想让母亲有丝毫的担忧。
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6. They killed the men but spared the children.
他们杀死了大人,但放过了孩子。
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7. He spared no effort to make her happy again.
为使她重新快乐起来,他想尽了办法。
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8. No expense was spared in furnishing the new office.
装潢新办公室不惜工本。
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9. to get the spare out of the boot
从汽车行李箱中取出备用轮胎
- spare (adj.) "kept in reserve, not used, provided or held for extra need," late 14c., from or from the same root as spare (v.). Old English had spær "sparing, frugal." Also compare Old Norse sparr "(to be) spared." In reference to time, from mid-15c.; sense of "lacking in substance; lean, gaunt; flimsy, thin; poor," is recorded from 1540s. Spare part is attested from 1888. Spare tire is from 1894 of bicycles; 1903 of automobiles; 1961 of waistlines.
- spare (n.) "extra thing or part," 1640s, from spare (adj.). The Middle English noun sense was "a sparing, mercy, leniency" (early 14c.). Bowling game sense of "an advantage gained by a knocking down of all pins in two bowls" is attested from 1843, American English.
- spare (v.) Old English sparian "to refrain from harming, be indulgent to, allow to go free; use sparingly," from the source of Old English spær "sparing, frugal," from Proto-Germanic *sparaz (source also of Old Saxon sparon, Old Frisian sparia, Old Norse spara, Dutch sparen, Old High German sparon, German sparen "to spare"). Meaning "to dispense from one's own stock, give or yield up," is recorded from early 13c. Related: Spared; sparing.
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