英语近义词辨析：4个表示花费的词
Spend . Expend . Cost . Pay以上四个词和“消费”、“花费”和“消耗”有关。
●首先，spend主要做及物动词使用，其宾语可以是“钱”、“时间”或“精力”。
Every year, she spends a lot of money on clothes.
女孩，您用生命买衣服啊。
We’ve just spent 1.9 million on improving our computer network.
笔者回想起在老东家有一段时期几十个电脑共享1MB带宽的工作环境，何其辛苦!
I’ve spent an hour in the station waiting for the train.
各位瞅仔细了，spend on doing sth.但是spend doing sth.这就是区别。雅思考官各个鹰眼犀利，可别范怂。
My sister always spends ages in the bathroom.
我姐姐洗澡总是洗很久很久。
I want to live in a dormitory to spend time with my school friends.
For the past month, he’s spending all the energy trying to find a job.
此外，spend并非大家想象的只能由人或机构做主语：
Her anger soon spent itself (=stopped). 她只生了一会气。
●expend的用法和spend差不多，比expend更为正式，可以用于雅思写作;
You expend so much effort for so little return.
你还真是入不敷出。
Governments expend a lot of resources on war.
政府在战争上投入很多资源。
●cost的用法与spend, expend不同。cost的主语一般是花出去的钱、时间和精力的对象。
I cost 30 dollars for the board game. X
The board game costs me 30 dollars.√
I spend 30 dollars for the board game.√
One costs more money running a business than buying a house. X
Running a business costs more money than buying a house.√
It costs more money to run a business than to buy a house.√
(因为这句话的主语是不定式to run a business，所以它被放在谓语和宾语后面，主语用it代替)
●pay的用法。pay强调“付款”，也有pay for sth.这样一看就懂的用法
You have to pay four dollars for each hamburger.
当然pay还有很多其他用法。
Mum paid for my driving lessons./Mum paid me for the driving lessons.
妈妈帮我付了学开车的钱。
Ray paid some kids to wash his car.
Ray花钱叫几个小孩来洗他的车。
Ray paid the kids 10 dollars to wash his car.
Ray花10美元叫这孩子洗他车。
A savings plan that paid six percent interest
一个6%利息的储蓄方案
It pays to be honest. (= It is good to be honest)
William is now paying the price for his early mistakes.
威廉姆现在在为他之前的错误买单。
I decide to pay my folks a visit this weekend.
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