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 newly-married couple expended too much money on decorating their apartment.
  这对新婚夫妇把过多的钱花费在装饰他们的那套房间上。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He expended a great deal of time in doing the work.
  他消耗大量的时间做这个工作。
• Costs expended on and revenue derived from transfers of technology during the year;
  年度技术转让成本和收益；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。