英和和英

読み方 ついやす

他動詞

To spend; to expend; to lay out; to waste

用例

• 金を費やす
  to spend money―（何に）―on something―（消耗品なら）―in something

• 彼は月給を本に費やしてしまう
  He spends his salary on books.
• 彼は着物にだいぶ金を費やす
  He spends much money on clothes.
• 人が酒やタバコに費やす金は莫大なものだ
  People spend enormous sums of money in wine and tobacco.
• 子どもは菓子を買って金を費やす
  Children spend money in confectionery.
• これは多大の金を費やして建てた家だ
  The house was built at great cost―at great expense.
• 三万円を費やして建てた家だ
  The house was built at cost of 30,000 yen.
• 金を無益に費やす
  to waste money―squander money―make ducks and drakes of one's money
• 時を費やす
  to spend time in―pass one's time in―devote one's time to―anything
• 僕は読書に時を費やす
  I pass my time in reading―devote my time to reading.
• 雑談に時を費やす
  We spend time in idle talk.
• 英語を修めるには十年を費やさなければならぬ
  It takes ten years to master English.
• 僕は英語を修めるのに十年を費やした
  It took me ten years to master English
  I was ten years in mastering English.
• その宮を建立するのに四十年の年月を費やした
  The temple was forty years in building.
• これは多大の時と金を費やして建てた家だ
  The house was built at a considerable cost of time and money.
• 時を無益に費やす
  to waste time
• そんなことをするのは時と金を無駄に費やすのみだ
  It will be time and money thrown away.
• 労を費やす
  to cost labour
• この本を書くのに七年の労を費やした
  The book cost me seven years' labour.
• これは著者が多年の労を費やした苦心の作である
  It is a work which cost the author years of labour.
• 彼は多大の金と労を費やして目的を達した
  He attained his object at a great cost of money and labour.
• そんなことをするのはいたずらに労を費やすのみだ
  It will be a waste of labour
  It is lost labour.
• 愚者には千万言を費やすも何の益無し
  You will waste words on a fool―you will waste words on him.