英:['speəlɪ]
美:['sperlɪ]
英:['speəlɪ]
美:['sperlɪ]
词根:spare
adj.spare 多余的;瘦的;少量的
sparing 节约的;贫乏的;保守的
adv.sparingly 节俭地;保守地;爱惜地
n.spare 剩余;备用零件
sparing 抽出;宽恕;免去;给予(spare的ing形式)
spareness 缺乏;瘦弱;贫乏
sparer 节省物质
vi.spare 饶恕,宽恕;节约
vt.spare 节约,吝惜;饶恕;分出,分让
adjective
not being usedespecially: held for emergency use
a spare tire
being over and above what is needed : superfluous
spare time
not liberal or profuse : sparing
a spare prose style
healthily lean
not abundant or plentiful
verb
transitive verb
to forbear to destroy, punish, or harm
to refrain from attacking or reprimanding with necessary or salutary severity
to relieve of the necessity of doing or undergoing something
spare yourself the trouble
to refrain from : avoid
spared no expense
to use or dispense frugally—used chiefly in the negative
don't spare the syrup
to give up as not strictly needed
do you have any cash to spare
to have left over or as margin
time to spare
intransitive verb
to be frugal
to refrain from doing harm
noun
a spare tire
a duplicate (such as a key or a machine part) kept in reserve
the knocking down of all 10 pins with the first 2 balls in a frame in bowling
Adjective Middle English, from Old English spær sparing, scant; akin to Old High German spar spare Verb Middle English, from Old English sparian; akin to Old High German sparōn to spare, Old English spær, adjective, scant
The first known use of spare was before the 12th century
spark1 of 3noun
a small bit of a burning material
a hot glowing bit struck from a mass
a short bright flash of electricity between two points
sparkle entry 2 sense 1
a small amount that could grow into something larger
still has a spark of decency
spark2 of 3verb
to give off or cause to give off sparks
to cause to get going sparked the team to victory
the question sparked quite an argument
spark3 of 3verb
woo sense 1, court
spark1 of 3noun
a small bit of a burning material
a hot glowing bit struck from a mass
a short bright flash of electricity between two points
sparkle entry 2 sense 1
a small amount that could grow into something larger
still has a spark of decency
spark2 of 3verb
to give off or cause to give off sparks
to cause to get going sparked the team to victory
the question sparked quite an argument
spark3 of 3verb
woo sense 1, court
spark1 of 3noun
a small bit of a burning material
a hot glowing bit struck from a mass
a short bright flash of electricity between two points
sparkle entry 2 sense 1
a small amount that could grow into something larger
still has a spark of decency
spark2 of 3verb
to give off or cause to give off sparks
to cause to get going sparked the team to victory
the question sparked quite an argument
spark3 of 3verb
woo sense 1, court
sparingadjective
careful in the use of money or supplies
sparingadjective
careful in the use of money or supplies
spareribsplural noun
a cut of pork ribs separated from the bacon strips
spare1 of 3verb
to keep from being punished or harmed : show mercy
spared the prisoners
to free of the need to do something
spare yourself the trouble
to hold off from doing or spending
spare no cost
to use or give out in small amounts
more pancakes, please, and don't spare the syrup
to give up as not really needed couldn't spare a dime
can you spare me a few minutes
to have left over
got there with time to spare
spare2 of 3adjective
held in reserve
a spare tire
being over what is needed
spare time
not generous or wasteful : sparing
somewhat thin
not abundant or plentiful : scanty
spare3 of 3noun
a spare or duplicate piece or part
the knocking down of all 10 bowling pins with the first two balls in a frame in bowling
spare1 of 3verb
to keep from being punished or harmed : show mercy
spared the prisoners
to free of the need to do something
spare yourself the trouble
to hold off from doing or spending
spare no cost
to use or give out in small amounts
more pancakes, please, and don't spare the syrup
to give up as not really needed couldn't spare a dime
can you spare me a few minutes
to have left over
got there with time to spare
spare2 of 3adjective
held in reserve
a spare tire
being over what is needed
spare time
not generous or wasteful : sparing
somewhat thin
not abundant or plentiful : scanty
spare3 of 3noun
a spare or duplicate piece or part
the knocking down of all 10 bowling pins with the first two balls in a frame in bowling
1 When he deploys them, it’s sparely, and with limited subject range and power.
2 A few steps away is another sparely told tale: Karin, a young mother of two in Sri Lanka, is lured by the promise of a waitress job in Singapore.
3 “I've lost the key.” “You'll find a spare in the drawer.”
4 But the carefully chosen works — beautifully, sparely distributed throughout 12 galleries — reminded me that there is reason for Picasso's fame.
5 Calorie restriction is most often associated with weight loss such as the popular 5:2 diet, which calls for eating sparely for two days and normally for five.
6 Somehow the storm spared our house while nearby buildings were destroyed.
7 William held me longest with his recent bronzes sparely arranged at waddington's galleries.
最吸引我的是随意陈列在威亭顿美术馆里的威廉近来的铜像作品.
8 We lived sparely, but it wasn’t too bad.
9 I like her spare style of writing.
10 “I wanted to tell his story economically and sparely, while keeping some of the mystery intact,” says Killip.
11 The house is sparely furnished and not overly lighted but perfectly laid out for evil to lurk.
12 Each features a luminous, pastoral landscape sparely dotted by tiny silhouetted figures.
13 The sparely designed production doesn’t hang together the way it might, either, and individual performances often don’t dig far beneath the surface.
14 Customers will be asked to conserve gas and energy by turning down the temperature on their water heaters and taking shorter showers, using air conditioners sparely and shutting off gas-powered BBQs.
15 “The Hollow,” by contrast, tells its spare story sparely under the fluid direction of Matthew Gardiner.
16 But with strikes occurring in a mountainous sparely populated region, civilian causalities are rare.
不过,由于空袭的目标是人口稀少的山区, 因此平民伤亡人数会很小.
17 While this intimate group show of sparely installed work occupies just three rooms, it pulls from speculative fiction, critical theory and wide-ranging media to explore vast possibilities for self-realization and community building.
18 Almutairi moved to the next room, sparely furnished with Persian rugs, seat cushions and a low table.
19 Each features a luminous, pastoral landscape sparely dotted by silhouetted Lilliputian figures.
20 She was spared from having to answer any more questions.
1 瘦弱地
2 节约
saving economical frugal provident economically economy stint thrift providence retrenchment spareness scrimp retrench save husband economize
3 贫乏
poor weak narrow lean spare sparse barren arid scant meager tenuous indigent scanty poverty-stricken washy sparing scraggy exiguous jejune barely poorly wasteland paucity spareness tenuity sterilize miserable pinched Lenten scantily meanly beggarliness exiguity sterility smallness aridity meagerness exility in bad circumstances lack for
4 节约地