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 is so boring and it will have expend much time, money and energy, so I I wouldn't advise everyone to take part in it.
  太无聊了，而且还要花费大量的时间、金钱和精力，所以我不建议大家参加。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• We often expend all of our energy trying to meet every social obligation.
  我们经常花费我们所有的精力试图满足每项社会义务。
• If you give up exercise, your muscles shrink and fat increases. By the same token, if you expend more energy you will lose fat.
  停止锻炼会使肌肉萎缩、脂肪增加。同样，如果花更多的精力锻炼，就会减掉脂肪。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。