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

• Not giving or expending freely; sparing.
  节俭的，节省的不随便施舍或花费的；节俭的。
• The next is, never to anticipate uncertain profits by expending them before they are secured.
  第三条原则就是在无法预料的金钱到手之前，永远不要动用自己的存款。
• Of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor.
  关于农业；倾向于以消耗更多资金和劳动力小面积耕种的。
• You will be expending a lot of energy, though, so you may want to find regular ways to dispel tension.
  然而，你将会花费大量的精力，所以你可能会想要找出一个有规律的方法来缓解压力。
• 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。
• Useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly.
  无益的活动；毫无节制的消费行为。
• 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。
• 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。
• Expending energy on a project.
  在某一项目上花费精力。
• 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。