※ 引述《ghost1006 (jones)》之铭言：
: 下面这句话是来自四月的彭蒙惠
: "The idea of spending two hours at a mall to try to buy a new pair of jeans, t
: hat's just not something that anybody really wants to do," said Katrina Lake,
: who in 2011 founded StitchFix, one of the earliest incarnations of online pers
: onal shopping services.
: 想问的是spend 句型不是都是
: spend something doing something
: 为什么这边会用to try，而不是trying呢？
To spend time doing something means you use the time available to you for
something.
I spent a lot of time (at the station) seeing you.