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

• 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。
• He had expended much time and energy on that experiment.
  他已经花费了许多时间、金钱在那个实验上。
• 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。
• He expended much time in reading.
  他花费许多工夫读书。
• Costs expended on and revenue derived from transfers of technology during the year;
  年度技术转让成本和收益；
• They expended large sums of money in maintaining this beach.
  他们花去大笔的钱维护这个海滩。
• He has expended a large sum on his car.
  他在车身上花了一大笔钱。
• 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。
• When one considers all this it is striking to realize the energy expended.
  当你考虑所有这一切的时候，你会意识到这花费了多么惊人的能量。