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| Processed by: | richwarm (2026-08-23 20:33:35 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 88581 - submitted by 'becky82' >> It's not just "to spend (money, time)"---it works in the other direction too, namely "to cost (money, time)": Money: - 北京看病花了多少钱？ https://xinwen.bjd.com.cn/content/s6645ddbfe4b0f5cd59e2b6e4.html - 那枚戒指花了我整整三个月的工资，…… https://m.79n.cn/book/559594/ Time: - 写这本书花了他多少时间？ https://www.ituring.com.cn/article/details/97 - 这个一分钟的视频花了我一上午时间 https://www.sina.cn/news/detail/4699543549511384.html (I haven't checked the other glosses.) -------------------- Editor: I think the comment I made on your 花钱 submission may apply here too. The fact that 花 is most naturally translated as "cost" or "take" in some constructions doesn't necessarily mean that these are additional lexical senses of 花. For example, NA defines this sense as "to spend; to expend", but one of its examples (去那儿花了三个小时。) is translated "It took three hours to get there." So NA evidently regards "take" there as arising from the way the Chinese construction is expressed in English, rather than as a separate sense of 花. I haven't found a dictionary that explicitly gives "cost" as a sense of 花. |
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# - 花 花 [hua1] /flower/blossom/CL:朵[duo3],支[zhi1],束[shu4],把[ba3],盆[pen2],簇[cu4]/fancy pattern/florid/to spend (money, time)/(coll.) lecherous/lustful/ # + 花 花 [[hua1]] /flower/blossom/CL:朵[duo3],支[zhi1],束[shu4],把[ba3],盆[pen2],簇[cu4]/fancy pattern/florid/to spend (money, time)/to cost (money, time)/(coll.) lecherous/lustful/ |