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

• 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。
• 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。
• They had already expended six thousand dollars in advertisement.
  在广告上，他们已花费了6000美元。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Also, a lot of energy is expended in this process.
  还有，在这个过程中消耗了大量的能源。
• 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。
• 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。
• They expended large sums of money in maintaining this beach.
  他们花去大笔的钱维护这个海滩。