spare

/spɛɚ/ 名词 C2

中文：备用品、节俭、克制

The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
Parsimony; frugal use.
An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
That which has not been used or expended.
A spare tire. · I stopped to help out. Do you have a spare? [Said by one motorist to another with a flat tire.]
Any car part or comparable machine part in a supply chain. · People sometimes forget that world-class logistics also involve inventory management in warehouses full of spares.
A superfluous or second-best person. · an heir and a spare
The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.

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I told him I wouldn’t spare any expense in the matter if—”

“Miss Leslie,” he began hurriedly, “I have but a moment to spare.

But the spare room was out of the question for such a stray waif, so there remained only the east gable room.

But he had never been upstairs in his own house since the spring he helped Marilla paper the spare bedroom, and that was four years ago.

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