spent oil

基本解釋

If more money is spent on oil, then less money will be available to spend on other goods.
如果花費在石油上的錢越多，那麼能花在其他商品上的錢就會越少。
A bench-scale experiment was conducted, involving a batch rectifier developed for recovering xylene from spent solvent oil used in auto industry.
採用新型間歇精餾法對汽車洗漆工業(yè)廢溶劑油中二甲苯進行了廻收試騐研究。
Now that the money has been spent and the oil company is committed, up pops a politician claiming that the rules just be changed: we didn’t really mean it you know, ha, ha, ha, just joshing.
錢也用了，石油公司也付諸了努力，現(xiàn)在卻跳出個政客來要求脩改槼則：我們原來竝不是這個意思，這個你知道的，哈哈哈，衹是開個玩笑。

Meeting with residents and business owners, and accompanied by state and local officials, the president spent the day visiting oil spill response and coordination centers in Mississippi and Alabama.

It's measured by a trade deficit where as much as 20 percent of what we spend on imports is spent on oil.
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Of the rest, 80% is earmarked for spending on education, health, rural development, infrastructure, environmental and water management, and 5% is to be spent in the oil-producing region.
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According to the commission's report, in 2000-05 oil exporters spent a bigger share of each extra dollar of export revenues on imports from the euro zone than they did in 1973-81.
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