expend

verb

1. 花费；消费；耗费
   to use or spend a lot of time, money, energy, etc.
   1. She expended all her efforts on the care of home and children.
      她把所有精力都花在料理家务和照顾孩子上。

1. VERB 花费;耗费
   To expend something, 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。

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。
2. They do not want to expend energy in what, to them, is a lost cause.
   他们不想把精力投到他们认为注定不会成功的事中去。
3. I think it is safe to say that very few students expend the effort to do quality work in school
   我认为可以肯定地说学校里很少有学生肯为学好功课下功夫。
4. If you give up exercise, your muscles shrink and fat increases. By the same token, if you expend more energy you will lose fat.
   停止锻炼会使肌肉萎缩、脂肪增加。同样，如果花更多的精力锻炼，就会减掉脂肪。
5. Neither entity wanted to expend the time or money to develop their own standard.
   没有经济实体想要花时间或金钱来开发它们自己的标准。
6. Likewise, teams often expend inordinate amounts of time maintaining and fussing over their script-driven build systems.
   同样，团队经常花费过多的时间来维护并过分小心地对待他们的脚本驱动的构建系统。
7. Second, these numbers indicate places where you might want to expend effort to improve code hygiene and design.
   第二，这些数字指出应该在哪些方面改进代码质量和设计。
8. You don't need to expend that much time in watching TV.
   你不必花那么多时间在看电视上。
9. Your social setting can strongly affect what you believe is possible and that will affect your confidence, the effort you expend, and the results you achieve.
   你所处的社交环境会很强烈地影响你的信念而信念会影响你的自信，你付出的努力，和你获得的成果。
10. Don't expend all your energy on such a useless job.
    不要把你的精力全花在这无益的工作上。
11. We often expend all of our energy trying to meet every social obligation.
    我们经常花费我们所有的精力试图满足每项社会义务。
12. Budget lines represent all combinations of goods for which consumers expend all their income.
    预算线描述了消费者用他们全部的收入购买商品的所有组合。
13. These technologies have shifted the amount of energy that people expend in doing their daily business.
    这些技术替换了人们用于每日劳作的能量。
14. Children, who expend lots of energy, have a real "passion" for sweets.
    儿童对糖果有一种“激情”，因为他们消耗很多能量。
15. You expend so much effort for so little return.
    你为如此小的回报付出了如此多的努力。
16. The psychic rogue can expend his psionic focus to use this ability as a move action.
    灵能游荡者可以耗费他的灵能聚焦以一个移动动作使用这项能力。
17. MDA make component's reuse expend to model's reuse.
    MDA的出现，使软件复用由组件复用扩展到模型复用。
18. Even if him worker agrees, do not expend also be deregulation for pay endowment insurance.
    即使是职工本人同意，不为缴纳养老保险费也是违反规定的。
19. Investors also expend considerable effort attempting to assess the quality of a company's management.
    投资者还需要花费大量的精力评估公司的治理品质。
20. It looks like we can expend our business with you.
    看起来我们可以扩大与贵方的贸易往来。
21. It is so boring and it will have expend much time, money and energy, so I I wouldn't advise everyone to take part in it.
    太无聊了，而且还要花费大量的时间、金钱和精力，所以我不建议大家参加。
22. It may promote to expend and to produce in a short time, imperceptibly to economical recovery promoter action.
    它可以在短期内促进消费和生产，无形中对经济的复苏起到了促进作用。
23. At this time of year, it's imperative to expend more calories.
    在每年的这个时候，它必须花费更多的热量。
24. Maximizers expend more time and energy reaching decisions, and they're often anxious about their choices.
    最大化者花更多地时间和精力来做出决定，他们往往对自己的选择感到焦虑。
25. If this domain name brings hundreds of yuan cession to expend only, fail namely to him.
    如果这个域名只带来几百元的转让费，对于他来说就是失败。
26. Each year, economists expend vast energy on measuring the activity of, say, households or large companies.
    经济学家每年都会耗费大量精力，衡量家庭和大公司等经济部门的活动。
27. It looks like you're ready to expend.
    看来，你准备把它做大了。
28. So dreading the effort you'll expend at the gym or sweating to exhaustion is misguided;
    所以害怕在健身房、或运动后汗流浃背、筋疲力会消耗能量是在产生误导；
29. We expend a significant amount of money to support our undergraduate students and of course for our graduate students.
    我们每年花费大量的资金支持我们本科生奖学金项目，当然研究生奖学金项目也一样支持。
30. It would be a right way to conserve and expend the Pangolin's population by manually rearing this animal.
    开展穿山甲的人工饲养，扩大物种繁殖和保护，已成为保护穿山甲资源的有效途径。

verb

1. use up, consume fully
   1. The legislature expended its time on school questions

   Synonym:    use

2. pay out
   1. spend money

   Synonym:    spenddrop