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(fèi)在石油上的錢(qián)越多，那么能花在其他商品上的錢(qián)就會(huì)越少。
A bench-scale experiment was conducted, involving a batch rectifier developed for recovering xylene from spent solvent oil used in auto industry.
采用新型間歇精餾法對(duì)汽車(chē)洗漆工業(yè)廢溶劑油中二甲苯進(jìn)行了回收試驗(yàn)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(qián)也用了，石油公司也付諸了努力，現(xiàn)在卻跳出個(gè)政客來(lái)要求修改規(guī)則：我們?cè)瓉?lái)并不是這個(gè)意思，這個(gè)你知道的，哈哈哈，只是開(kāi)個(gè)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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