expend

英 [ɪkˈspend]

美 [ɪkˈspend]

v.  花费; 消费; 耗费

过去分词：expended　过去式：expended　现在分词：expending　第三人称单数：expends　

CET4考研IELTSGRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.11218 / COCA.10629

牛津词典

verb

• 花费；消费；耗费
  to use or spend a lot of time, money, energy, etc.
  1. She expended all her efforts on the care of home and children.
     她把所有精力都花在料理家务和照顾孩子上。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 花费;耗费
  Toexpendsomething, especially energy, time, or money, means to use it or spend it.
  1. Children expend a lot of energy and may need more high-energy food than adults.
     孩子们消耗很多能量，可能比成年人需要更多高能量的食物。

英英释义

verb

• use up, consume fully
  1. The legislature expended its time on school questions
  Synonym:use
• pay out
  1. spend money
  Synonym:spenddrop

双语例句

• It would be a right way to conserve and expend the Pangolin's population by manually rearing this animal.
  开展穿山甲的人工饲养，扩大物种繁殖和保护，已成为保护穿山甲资源的有效途径。
• It may promote to expend and to produce in a short time, imperceptibly to economical recovery promoter action.
  它可以在短期内促进消费和生产，无形中对经济的复苏起到了促进作用。
• Your social setting can strongly affect what you believe is possible and that will affect your confidence, the effort you expend, and the results you achieve.
  你所处的社交环境会很强烈地影响你的信念而信念会影响你的自信，你付出的努力，和你获得的成果。
• If this domain name brings hundreds of yuan cession to expend only, fail namely to him.
  如果这个域名只带来几百元的转让费，对于他来说就是失败。
• It looks like we can expend our business with you.
  看起来我们可以扩大与贵方的贸易往来。
• I think it is safe to say that very few students expend the effort to do quality work in school
  我认为可以肯定地说学校里很少有学生肯为学好功课下功夫。
• Each year, economists expend vast energy on measuring the activity of, say, households or large companies.
  经济学家每年都会耗费大量精力，衡量家庭和大公司等经济部门的活动。
• Maximizers expend more time and energy reaching decisions, and they're often anxious about their choices.
  最大化者花更多地时间和精力来做出决定，他们往往对自己的选择感到焦虑。
• Budget lines represent all combinations of goods for which consumers expend all their income.
  预算线描述了消费者用他们全部的收入购买商品的所有组合。
• Even if him worker agrees, do not expend also be deregulation for pay endowment insurance.
  即使是职工本人同意，不为缴纳养老保险费也是违反规定的。