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

• Time and political capital are expended pursuing trade policies irrelevant to most American companies.
  美国政府花费了大量时间和政治资本，去实行与大多数美国公司毫不相干的贸易政策。
• The whole of a man's income is expended in the purchase of services and of commodities.
  个人之全部所得，乃是用来购买劳役和商品的。
• The work obtainable equals that expended.
  可得到的功和所消耗的功相等。
• We've already expended too much energy on this project.
  我们在这个项目上已经耗费了太多精力。
• The energy expended in this operation.
  这次行动所花费的精力。
• He expended much time in reading.
  他花费许多工夫读书。
• He expended a great deal of time in doing the work.
  他消耗大量的时间做这个工作。
• They expended large sums of money in maintaining this beach.
  他们花去大笔的钱维护这个海滩。
• 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。
• Not real champagne, but plenty real enough for the amount of imagination expended on it.
  也不是真有香槟，而是运用了充分的想像力弄假成真了。