“花费（时间）做······”的英语翻译

Question

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Answer 1

1. spend 主语必须是人
(1) spend time ／money on sth. 在……上花费时间（金钱）。
例：I spent two hours on this maths problem. 这道数学题花了我两个小时。
(2) spend time ／ money (in) doing sth. 花费时间（金钱）做某事。
例：They spent two years (in) building this bridge. 造这座桥花了他们两年时间。

2. cost 主语是物或某种活动
(doing) sth. costs (sb.) ＋时间,某物（做某事）花了（某人）多少时间。
例：Remembering these new words cost him a lot of time.
他花了大量时间才记住了这些单词。

3. take后面常跟双宾语，
1) It takes sb. ＋时间＋to do sth. 做某事花了某人多少时间。
例：It took them three years to build this road. 他们用了三年时间修完了这条路。
(2)doing sth. takes sb. ＋时间,做某事花了某人多少时间。
例：Repairing this car took him the whole afternoon. 他花了一下午修车。

Answer 2

spend .... in doing sth.
It takes sb. ...... to do sth.

其中的.......都表示时间 比如1小时、10分钟之类的
例如：
I spent 2 hours in reading the new book. 我花了两个小时读那本新书。
It took me 4 years to build this house. 盖这座房子花了我四年。

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Answer 3

It takes sb some time/some money to do sth.
sb spend some time/some money on sth/in doing sth.
sth cost some time/some money to do sth.

Answer 4

spend in /on
it takes sb sth to do sth
it cost

Answer 5

spend sometime in doing sth/take sometime to do sth