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

• 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 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。
• Budget lines represent all combinations of goods for which consumers expend all their income.
  预算线描述了消费者用他们全部的收入购买商品的所有组合。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• You don't need to expend that much time in watching TV.
  你不必花那么多时间在看电视上。
• If this domain name brings hundreds of yuan cession to expend only, fail namely to him.
  如果这个域名只带来几百元的转让费，对于他来说就是失败。
• 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。
• 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。