expended

英 [ɪkˈspendɪd]

美 [ɪkˈspendɪd]

v.  花费; 消费; 耗费
expend的过去分词和过去式

COCA.44437

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。

双语例句

• These nouns refer to physical or mental effort expended to produce or accomplish something.
  这些名词用来指花费体力或脑力的努力来产生或完成某事。
• While I may not have truly expended that amount of energy, it is a great reference for me.
  虽然我可能没有真正的花费的能量，这对我来说是很大的参考。
• We've already expended too much energy on this project.
  我们在这个项目上已经耗费了太多精力。
• He had expended much time and energy on that experiment.
  他已经花费了许多时间、金钱在那个实验上。
• He expended a great deal of time in doing the work.
  他消耗大量的时间做这个工作。
• The work obtainable equals that expended.
  可得到的功和所消耗的功相等。
• Cost-efficiency is a measure of the quantity of project resources expended to produce a given volume of products.
  成本效率是对生产一定数量的产品所消耗项目资源量的度量。
• Time and effort expended are usually moe appreciated than money spent.
  比花钱更宝贵的是肯于付出的时间和努力。
• He expended much time in reading.
  他花费许多工夫读书。
• Time and political capital are expended pursuing trade policies irrelevant to most American companies.
  美国政府花费了大量时间和政治资本，去实行与大多数美国公司毫不相干的贸易政策。