英语释义

• pay out;

  "spend money"

• use up, consume fully;

  "The legislature expended its time on school questions"

片语

expend vt花费

expend space耗损空间

expend detail付出

Expend All展开全部

Expend Appearance扩展轮廓

spend度过，消磨（时光）；花费；浪费；用尽

cost成本为……；花费；使付出；使花许多钱（非正式）；给……估价

expend area花费区

consume耗尽，毁灭；耗尽生命

expend d消费

invested投资，花费

waste浪费；变消瘦；挥霍钱财

英汉例句

• i think there「s a general principle at work here: the less energy people expend on performance, the more they expend on appearances to compensate.

  我想这是工作中的一个一般原则：人们在工作表现上花费越少，就会在外形上花费的越多来弥补。

• more often than not the energy they expend on seeming impressive makes their actual performance worse.

  通常他们花费在着装上的精力使得他们的工作更加糟糕。

• most of the time, good software engineering techniques ensure that this happens automatically, without us having to expend a lot of attention on the issue of object lifetime.

  在大多数时候，好的软件工程技术保证这是自动实现的，不用我们对对象生命周期问题花费过多心思。

• cars must carry their energy and expend energy to carry it, so the less weight per unit of energy, the better.

  汽车必须携带能量而这本身就需要消耗能量，因此单位能量的重量越低越好。

• they expend less energy because—just as you may have always suspected—they simply need fewer strides to cover the same ground.

  他们消耗的能量少只是因为他们走相同的长度迈了更少的步子。

• as obscure as the middle class definition is, it is most fascinating to me how we americans expend so much energy trying to maintain the appearance of wealth.

  中产阶级的定义是这么模糊，最令我好奇的是我们美国人怎样耗费如此多的精力努力维持富裕的表象。

• the military should not be permitted to expend considerable national resources in this effort, without congressional and public oversight.

  军队在没有国会和大众的监督下，不允许在这方面消耗大量的国家资源。

• why would individuals expend time and energy in activities that fail to increase reproductive success?

  个体为什么要耗费时间和精力，去从事无法提高种群繁殖率的事情？

• to calculate this kind of estimate accuracy, teams would have to expend effort to capture detailed 「actual」 hours, a practice not advocated by any agile approach i」ve seen.

  要计算这样的估算準确率，团队必须要耗费精力获得详细的「实际」工作小时数，我可从没有见过哪个敏捷实践倡议说要这样做。

• will the contest build our social capital with our network or expend it?

  ＊ 用我们的网络进行比赛会建立还是消耗社会资本

• 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。

• we are fat because we consume too many caloriesand expend too few.

  我们会胖，因为我们消费了太多的热量，但消耗的太少。

• mr obama’s aides have concluded that a more ambitious overhaul of america’s sprawling regulatory system would expend too much political capital with too little benefit.

  奥巴马的助手们认为对于美国散漫的监管系统而言一项更加激进的改革会花费太多的政治资本却只带来太少的收效。

• it「s easy to rag on people trying to make the world a better place, even if they expend no more energy than it takes to point and click.

  以创造美好世界为目的来捉弄人们十分简单，即使他们的花费甚至不比鼠标点击的耗能更多。

• put slightly differently, hexagonal cells allow bees to focus on producing honey and expend the least amount of energy making wax.

  或者稍微换种说法，六边形的空间使蜜蜂能够把精力放到产蜜上，并且花费最少能量制蜡。

• because, in some scenarios, when we expend energy, we actually gain more of it. and when we spend time, we open more up in our lives.

  在某些情况下，当我们消耗精力时，我们实际上能从中得到更多的精力，而我们花费时间时，我们会对生活敞开更多时间，这两个概念从本质上来讲是矛盾的。

• it」s about how you choose to expend your precious energy and with whom you choose to share that experience.

  这关乎你如何消耗自己珍贵的能量以及你选择了什么样的人来分享这种美好的时光。

• it has been said that most people expend more effort researching their next vacation than they do planning their future.

  众所周知，大部分人花费更多精力努力去考虑他们下一次的度假，而不是规划他们的未来。

• in this case, the executive branch makes a decision to expend funds.

  在本例中，主管部门作出资金消费决策。

• but both of these concepts are paradoxical in nature.because, in some scenarios, when we expend energy, we actually gain more of it.and when we spend time, we open more up in our lives.

  在某些情况下，当我们消耗精力时，我们实际上能从中得到更多的精力，而我们花费时间时，我们会对生活敞开更多时间，这两个概念从本质上来讲是矛盾的。

相似词

waste浪费；变消瘦；挥霍钱财

spend度过，消磨（时光）；花费；浪费；用尽

exhaust废气；排气管

use使用；用途；发挥

consume耗尽，毁灭；耗尽生命

up上升；繁荣；（非正式）走运

shell剥皮；炮轰

waste浪费；变消瘦；挥霍钱财

up上升；繁荣；（非正式）走运

exhaust废气；排气管

spend度过，消磨（时光）；花费；浪费；用尽

use使用；用途；发挥

consume耗尽，毁灭；耗尽生命