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

• Second, these numbers indicate places where you might want to expend effort to improve code hygiene and design.
  第二，这些数字指出应该在哪些方面改进代码质量和设计。
• You expend so much effort for so little return.
  你为如此小的回报付出了如此多的努力。
• 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。
• So dreading the effort you'll expend at the gym or sweating to exhaustion is misguided;
  所以害怕在健身房、或运动后汗流浃背、筋疲力会消耗能量是在产生误导；
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Maximizers expend more time and energy reaching decisions, and they're often anxious about their choices.
  最大化者花更多地时间和精力来做出决定，他们往往对自己的选择感到焦虑。