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

• 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。
• 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。
• Neither entity wanted to expend the time or money to develop their own standard.
  没有经济实体想要花时间或金钱来开发它们自己的标准。
• These technologies have shifted the amount of energy that people expend in doing their daily business.
  这些技术替换了人们用于每日劳作的能量。
• 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 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。
• It looks like you're ready to expend.
  看来，你准备把它做大了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。