spend and be spent

Give your workplace a spring facelift! Living magazine is offering three prizes of between ￡10, 000 and ￡50, 000 to be spent on improving the school, college or office where you spend so many hours each day! If you win, the money will be yours to spend as you wish to make life more pleasant.

给你的工作场所来个春季大改造吧！《生活》杂志为你提供了3个奖项，奖金从1万英镑到5万英镑不等，用于改善你每天花费大量时间学习或工作的学校、学院或办公室的环境。如果你中奖了，这些钱将由你随意使用，让生活更愉快。

The money I spend on a two-week vacation could easily be spent on a big-screen TV instead. And with a TV, I would get years more of entertainment.

试想，两星期的假期所花费的钱如果用来买背投电视，那花起来可是相当容易，并且从那以后我们就可以享受更多的娱乐。

All the time we spend looking at repetitive posts and photos from people we already know, could be spent instead on the Web meeting new people who are interested in the same things we are.

我们在网上花在浏览认识的人重复发布的信息和照片上的时间，其实可以花在结识一些有共同兴趣的新朋友上面。