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

• 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。
• Likewise, teams often expend inordinate amounts of time maintaining and fussing over their script-driven build systems.
  同样，团队经常花费过多的时间来维护并过分小心地对待他们的脚本驱动的构建系统。
• 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。
• 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 you're ready to expend.
  看来，你准备把它做大了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。