expended

英 [ɪkˈspendɪd]

美 [ɪkˈspendɪd]

v.  花费; 消费; 耗费
expend的过去分词和过去式

COCA.44437

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。

双语例句

• The soldiers expended all their ammunition in that fight.
  士兵在那场战斗中用尽了所有的弹药。
• These nouns refer to physical or mental effort expended to produce or accomplish something.
  这些名词用来指花费体力或脑力的努力来产生或完成某事。
• Many mathematicians have expended a great deal of effort trying to prove the conjecture.
  许多数学家们费了大量的努力试图证明这个猜想。
• He expended much time in reading.
  他花费许多工夫读书。
• The enemy had expended all their ammunition.
  敌人已耗尽所有的弹药。
• We expended a lot today, but there is time to recover.
  今天我们体力消耗较大，但有足够的时间恢复。
• Time and effort expended are usually moe appreciated than money spent.
  比花钱更宝贵的是肯于付出的时间和努力。
• He expended a great deal of time in doing the work.
  他消耗大量的时间做这个工作。
• Cost-efficiency is a measure of the quantity of project resources expended to produce a given volume of products.
  成本效率是对生产一定数量的产品所消耗项目资源量的度量。
• Much effort has been expended to improve the standard of the forging furnace.
  我们也花费了很大力量用以改进锻炉标准。