读知识>英语词典>expend翻译和用法

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

    • 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。
    • 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。
    • 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 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。
    • 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。
    • 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;
    • 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。
    • 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 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。
    • You don't need to expend that much time in watching TV.
      你不必花那么多时间在看电视上。