expended

[ɪk'spɛnd]
  • 释义
  • 花费( expend的过去式和过去分词 );使用(钱等)做某事;用光;耗尽;

  • 词义辨析
  • expend, spend
  • 这两个词的意思相同,前者为较正式用词,强调所消耗的时间、金钱或精力等是巨大的。
  • cost,expend,spend,take,pay
  • 这些动词都含“花费”之意。
    cost指花费时间、金钱、劳力等。其主语是物,而不能由人充当,也不用被动形式。
    expend较正式用词,通常指为某一专门目的而花费大量金钱、时间或精力。
    spend普通用词,与cost基本同义,但主语必须是人。
    take普通用词,指需要占用空间、时间或精力等,其主语可以是人,也可以是一件事情。
    pay“付款、给……报酬”,它可作及物动词也可作不及物动词。pay常用于以下几种句型:①Sb.pay(s)sb.money意为“某人付款给另一个人或某人给另一个人多少报酬”。
  • 双语例句
  • 1、

    The enemy had expended all their ammunition.

    敌人已耗尽所有的弹药.

    ——《简明英汉词典》
  • 2、

    They have expended all their ammunition.

    他们把弹药用光了.

    ——《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • 3、

    He expended all his strength in trying to climb out.

    他用尽全力试图爬出来.

    辞典例句
  • 4、

    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。

    《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
  • 5、

    Much effort has been expended to improve the standard of the forging furnace.

    我们也花费了很大力量用以改进锻炉标准.

    辞典例句
  • 6、

    One or two nights she found herself too tired to walk home , and expended car fare.

    有一两个晚上下班时,她实在累得走不动了, 只好花钱搭车回家.

    英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
  • 7、

    The factory expended all its capital on equipment.

    该厂将所有的资金用于设备.

    辞典例句
  • 8、

    They had already expended six thousand dollars in advertisement.

    在广告上,他们已花费了6000美元.

    辞典例句
  • 9、

    They expended large sums of money in maintaining this beach.

    他们花去大笔的钱维护这个海滩.

    辞典例句
  • 10、

    The whole of a man's income is expended in the purchase of services and of commodities.

    个人之全部所得,乃是用来购买劳役和商品的.

    辞典例句
  • 11、

    Every bit of mechanical energy expended reappears as heat.

    所消耗的每一点机械能都再现为热能.

    辞典例句
  • 12、

    He lived high and expended largely.

    他生活讲究,花费很大.

    《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • 13、

    Not real champagne, but plenty real enough for the amount of imagination expended on it.

    也不是真有香槟, 而是运用了充分的想像力弄假成真了.

    英汉文学 - 三万元遗产
  • 14、

    He expended much time in reading.

    他花费许多工夫读书.

    辞典例句
  • 15、

    They had expended all their captial on equipment.

    他们将所有资本用于设备.

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