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

• Expending mental energy on stuff wastes time.
  花费心力在材料上是浪费时间。
• 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。
• Nokia weathered criticism from investors that it was expending too much effort on high-end smartphones while its rival ate into its lucrative business selling expensive 'dumb' phones to upwardly mobile people around the world.
  他们说，在竞争对手侵蚀其颇为赚钱的业务、向全球社会经济地位不断提高的用户销售昂贵的傻瓜手机时，诺基亚却在高端智能手机上花费了太多的精力。
• Expending tax revenues on government operations.
  把税收款用于政府运行上。
• Subterranean data centers may keep computer equipment cool while expending less energy than conventional designs.
  地下数据中心的电脑设备可能会保持冷静，同时消耗更少的能源，比传统设计。
• The conversion of cellulose wastes to animal feed and human food is an intriguing prospect for limiting environmental pollution and for feeding the world 'expending population.
  对于控制环境污染和供应增长着的世界人口的食品来说，将纤维素废料转化为动物饲料和人类食物有着诱人的前景。
• 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。
• A scientific researcher who is concurrently a teacher should get higher pay, because he is expending greater labour.
  假如科研人员兼任教师，待遇还应当提高一点，因为付出的劳动更多嘛。
• They are expending enormous amounts of money; they have a huge diplomatic presence across the Pacific, she said.
  他们正在投入数额巨额资金，他们在整个太平洋地区建立了庞大的外交关系网，她表示。
• 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。