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

• They do not want to expend energy in what, to them, is a lost cause.
  他们不想把精力投到他们认为注定不会成功的事中去。
• 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。
• Your social setting can strongly affect what you believe is possible and that will affect your confidence, the effort you expend, and the results you achieve.
  你所处的社交环境会很强烈地影响你的信念而信念会影响你的自信，你付出的努力，和你获得的成果。
• 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。
• 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 looks like you're ready to expend.
  看来，你准备把它做大了。
• 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。
• 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。
• At this time of year, it's imperative to expend more calories.
  在每年的这个时候，它必须花费更多的热量。
• 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。