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
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.- 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。
- She expended all her efforts on the care of home and children.
柯林斯词典
- VERB 花费;耗费
Toexpendsomething, especially energy, time, or money, means to use it or spend it.- 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。
- Children expend a lot of energy and may need more high-energy food than adults.
英英释义
verb
- use up, consume fully
- The legislature expended its time on school questions
- pay out
- spend money
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。