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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 

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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

    • Children, who expend lots of energy, have a real "passion" for sweets.
      儿童对糖果有一种“激情”,因为他们消耗很多能量。
    • 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。
    • I think it is safe to say that very few students expend the effort to do quality work in school
      我认为可以肯定地说学校里很少有学生肯为学好功课下功夫。
    • 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。
    • 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。
    • It looks like we can expend our business with you.
      看起来我们可以扩大与贵方的贸易往来。
    • Even if him worker agrees, do not expend also be deregulation for pay endowment insurance.
      即使是职工本人同意,不为缴纳养老保险费也是违反规定的。
    • 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。
    • 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。