expending

英 [ɪkˈspendɪŋ]

美 [ɪkˈspendɪŋ]

v.  花费; 消费; 耗费
expend的现在分词

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。

英英释义

noun

• the act of spending money for goods or services
  Synonym:expenditure

双语例句

• Research on the City Water Expending Pricing Model based on the Water Security Idea
  水安全思想约束下的城市水消费定价模式研究
• The other is those who are working and searching in some areas, keeping expending their knowledge, like you.
  另一种是那些正在工作岗位上并在某个领域持续不断地探索的，一直拓展知识的人，就像他。
• The more you practice expending your mental energy wisely, the more it will become a habit.
  在如何明智地投放精力方面练习得越多，就越能习惯成自然。
• He and his colleagues then pulled data from the diaries about how many hours the women were spending in various activities, how many calories they likely were expending in each of those tasks, and how the activities and associated energy expenditures changed over the years.
  接下来，阿彻博士和同事们开始从这些日记中提取信息，以确定美国女性在各项家务上花费的时间、消耗的热量以及这么多年来这些家务和与之相关的能量消耗有了怎样的变化。
• Now, the company is expending its heat transfer business in China and look for talents for the positions.
  现在公司在开拓其热交换器在中国的业务，需职位：有意者请将简历寄至本公司。
• I really thought it would work, and possibly even save a lot of time and money over what we had been expending on similar projects in the past.
  我以为这种方法会奏效，甚至相比我们之前在类似项目上的投入，我认为这种方法可以节省大量时间和资金。
• While this doesn't hold true for every single situation, it's a good principle to keep in mind. There are probably some areas in your life where you're expending a lot of effort for negligible results.
  尽管这一原理不是在任何条件下都能成立的，但是的确值得你牢记，因为在你生活中的某些方面，你可能就花了大力气却只得到了微不足道的成果。
• They involved heavy sacrifices by the Greek people, battling a public administration clearly inadequate for the task; and expending of political capital by a government pitted against a populist opposition.
  其中包含着希腊民众做出的重大牺牲，与明显不能胜任此项任务的公共管理部门相较；而与走民粹主义路线的反对派对垒的政府则耗费了政治资本。
• BUT I argued that I was expending my talent overseas.
  我反驳我是在国外展现我的才能。
• Without known consumer requirements, it may be difficult to provide correct functionality and there is a danger of expending development and testing effort to produce operations that will not be used.
  如果不知道使用者需求，则可能很难提供正确的功能，因此就有可能存在将开发和测试工作浪费在提供将不会使用的操作上的风险。