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spare

B2 verb
gen /spiə/

spare /spɛɚ/ nghĩa là thôi, ngừng, nhịn

Các nghĩa

  1. thôi, ngừng, nhịn

    To desist; to stop; to refrain.

    intransitive

    I spend what time I can spare reading.

    Yuriko arranges flowers in her spare time.

    By the way, do you have any spare batteries?

  2. tha, dung thứ

    To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.

    intransitive

  3. tha, miễn cho

    To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.

    transitive

    For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

    Cologne Hauptbahnhof is reached in the small hours, and the traveller new to postwar Germany is spared the sight of the devastated city.

  4. tha mạng

    To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.

    specifically · transitive

    Kill me, if you please, or spare me.

  5. tằn tiện, dè sẻn

    To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.

    intransitive

    I, who at some times spend, at others spare, / Divided between carelessness and care.

  6. giữ lại, không tiết lộ

    To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.

    transitive

    Thou that day / Thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare

    He that hath knowledge, spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

+ 2 nghĩa khác
  1. dành dụm, để dành

    To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.

    transitive

  2. nhịn, bỏ, từ bỏ

    (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.

    transitive

    Where angry Jove did never spare / One breath of kind and temperate air.

    Poor Jack, farewell! / I could have better spared a better man

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