Please help me make a sentence out of these words

[anonymoose]

In my chinese text book, one of the exercises gives some mixed up words, which can be rearranged into sentences. One of them is as follows:

在 以后 了 老张 几乎 时间 都 炒 退休 把 花 股票 上 把

What confuses me is that there are two 把s, and I don't really know how to incorporate them into one sentence. This is my attempt:

老张退休了以后把时间几乎都花在把股票炒上。

However, I don't think this is correct, and I cannot really see how to rearrange it into a correct sentence. If there were only one 把, then I would say 老张退休了以后把时间几乎都花在炒股票上, but unless there is a mistake in my book, I think two 把s have to be used.

Any ideas?

[Guest IVYtony]

the sentence should be:

老张退休以后把时间几乎都花在炒股票上 了。

[anonymoose]

OK, thanks. So are you saying that two 把s cannot be included? Maybe there is a mistake in my book then.

[Guest IVYtony]

yes, I think so. pls go back to check your book I think it's an error.

[Bob Dylan Thomas]

are you using a textbook called 桥梁 by any chnace? I remmber this same question causing loads of trouble in my class a couple of years ago, until we finally all came to the conclusion that the second ba was a mistake.

[anonymoose]

正是“桥梁”这本书