expending

英 [ɪkˈspendɪŋ]

美 [ɪkˈspendɪŋ]

v.  花费; 消费; 耗费
expend的现在分词

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

noun

• the act of spending money for goods or services
  Synonym:expenditure

双语例句

• And foreign investors will think twice before expending time and money in lengthy negotiations only to see state-sanctioned deals crumble before their eyes.
  而外国投资者在旷日持久的谈判上耗费时间和金钱，结果只是眼睁睁地看着政府批准的交易流产，他们今后会三思而行。
• Expending energy on a project.
  在某一项目上花费精力。
• They involved heavy sacrifices by the Greek people, battling a public administration clearly inadequate for the task; and expending of political capital by a government pitted against a populist opposition.
  其中包含着希腊民众做出的重大牺牲，与明显不能胜任此项任务的公共管理部门相较；而与走民粹主义路线的反对派对垒的政府则耗费了政治资本。
• I really thought it would work, and possibly even save a lot of time and money over what we had been expending on similar projects in the past.
  我以为这种方法会奏效，甚至相比我们之前在类似项目上的投入，我认为这种方法可以节省大量时间和资金。
• The more you practice expending your mental energy wisely, the more it will become a habit.
  在如何明智地投放精力方面练习得越多，就越能习惯成自然。
• Nokia weathered criticism from investors that it was expending too much effort on high-end smartphones while its rival ate into its lucrative business selling expensive 'dumb' phones to upwardly mobile people around the world.
  他们说，在竞争对手侵蚀其颇为赚钱的业务、向全球社会经济地位不断提高的用户销售昂贵的傻瓜手机时，诺基亚却在高端智能手机上花费了太多的精力。
• The next is, never to anticipate uncertain profits by expending them before they are secured.
  第三条原则就是在无法预料的金钱到手之前，永远不要动用自己的存款。
• He and his colleagues then pulled data from the diaries about how many hours the women were spending in various activities, how many calories they likely were expending in each of those tasks, and how the activities and associated energy expenditures changed over the years.
  接下来，阿彻博士和同事们开始从这些日记中提取信息，以确定美国女性在各项家务上花费的时间、消耗的热量以及这么多年来这些家务和与之相关的能量消耗有了怎样的变化。
• You will be expending a lot of energy, though, so you may want to find regular ways to dispel tension.
  然而，你将会花费大量的精力，所以你可能会想要找出一个有规律的方法来缓解压力。
• While this doesn't hold true for every single situation, it's a good principle to keep in mind. There are probably some areas in your life where you're expending a lot of effort for negligible results.
  尽管这一原理不是在任何条件下都能成立的，但是的确值得你牢记，因为在你生活中的某些方面，你可能就花了大力气却只得到了微不足道的成果。