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。
• Don't expend all your energy on such a useless job.
  不要把你的精力全花在这无益的工作上。
• The psychic rogue can expend his psionic focus to use this ability as a move action.
  灵能游荡者可以耗费他的灵能聚焦以一个移动动作使用这项能力。
• It looks like you're ready to expend.
  看来，你准备把它做大了。
• 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。
• MDA make component's reuse expend to model's reuse.
  MDA的出现，使软件复用由组件复用扩展到模型复用。
• 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。
• These technologies have shifted the amount of energy that people expend in doing their daily business.
  这些技术替换了人们用于每日劳作的能量。
• 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。
• We expend a significant amount of money to support our undergraduate students and of course for our graduate students.
  我们每年花费大量的资金支持我们本科生奖学金项目，当然研究生奖学金项目也一样支持。