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

• They expended large sums of money in maintaining this beach.
  他们花去大笔的钱维护这个海滩。
• That depends on how much effort is expended, and whether the experts possess wisdom.
  这取决于投入了多少努力，以及专家们是否具备智慧。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 had already expended six thousand dollars in advertisement.
  在广告上，他们已花费了6000美元。
• 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。
• The enemy had expended all their ammunition.
  敌人已耗尽所有的弹药。
• 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。
• While I may not have truly expended that amount of energy, it is a great reference for me.
  虽然我可能没有真正的花费的能量，这对我来说是很大的参考。