※ 引述《ghost1006 (jones)》之銘言：
: 下面這句話是來自四月的彭蒙惠
: "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.
: 想問的是spend 句型不是都是
: spend something doing something
: 為什麼這邊會用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. -- It means you were there
and was seeing her in the meantime.
I spent a lot of time (at the station) to see you (=reason clause). -- The
reason why I was there was to meet you when you arrived at the station.
Mind you, in not all circuimstances is it possible to use both the '-ing' and
the 'to' version. They do not always make sense:
I spent time cleaning the house. -- makes sense: you were cleaning
I spent time to clean the house. -- does not make sense: the reason why you
spent time was to clean the house
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