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.- 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。
- Children expend a lot of energy and may need more high-energy food than adults.
英英释义
noun
- the act of spending money for goods or services
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - BUT I argued that I was expending my talent overseas.
我反驳我是在国外展现我的才能。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Expending mental energy on stuff wastes time.
花费心力在材料上是浪费时间。 - 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。 - 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。 - And foreign investors will think twice before expending time and money in lengthy negotiations only to see state-sanctioned deals crumble before their eyes.
而外国投资者在旷日持久的谈判上耗费时间和金钱,结果只是眼睁睁地看着政府批准的交易流产,他们今后会三思而行。