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

• Neither entity wanted to expend the time or money to develop their own standard.
  没有经济实体想要花时间或金钱来开发它们自己的标准。
• 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。
• Children, who expend lots of energy, have a real "passion" for sweets.
  儿童对糖果有一种“激情”，因为他们消耗很多能量。
• You expend so much effort for so little return.
  你为如此小的回报付出了如此多的努力。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• So dreading the effort you'll expend at the gym or sweating to exhaustion is misguided;
  所以害怕在健身房、或运动后汗流浃背、筋疲力会消耗能量是在产生误导；
• Investors also expend considerable effort attempting to assess the quality of a company's management.
  投资者还需要花费大量的精力评估公司的治理品质。
• Second, these numbers indicate places where you might want to expend effort to improve code hygiene and design.
  第二，这些数字指出应该在哪些方面改进代码质量和设计。