spent oil

基本解释

If more money is spent on oil, then less money will be available to spend on other goods.
如果花费在石油上的钱越多，那么能花在其他商品上的钱就会越少。
A bench-scale experiment was conducted, involving a batch rectifier developed for recovering xylene from spent solvent oil used in auto industry.
采用新型间歇精馏法对汽车洗漆工业废溶剂油中二甲苯进行了回收试验研究。
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.
钱也用了，石油公司也付诸了努力，现在却跳出个政客来要求修改规则：我们原来并不是这个意思，这个你知道的，哈哈哈，只是开个玩笑。

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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