| 词汇 | expend |
| 释义 | expend verb[ T ] formaluk /ɪkˈspend/ us /ɪkˈspend/ to use or spend time, effort, or money: 花费，消费，耗费（尤指时间、精力或钱） You expend so much effort for so little return.你费了那么大劲儿，回报却如此微不足道。 expend something on somethingGovernments expend a lot of resources on war.各国政府在战争上消耗了大量资源。 Using and misusing adopt adoption avail avail yourself of something be/go heavy on somethingidiom exhaust give/allow something full playidiom go into something go through gobble something up make capital out of somethingidiom spare spent swallow tap turn over turn to someone/something turn/use something to good accountidiom unblock underuse You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Paying money expend | American Dictionaryexpend verb[ T ] us/ɪkˈspend/ to use or spend something, esp. time, effort, or money: They expend all their energy fixing up their house. expend | Business Englishexpend verb[ T ] formaluk /ɪkˈspend/us to use or spend something, especially time, effort, or money: expend energy/effort/timeWhy do firms expend effort investing abroad, rather than staying home and producing for export? expend money/resources/funds Managers had to expend a lot of time dealing with the consequences of the incident. Examples of expendexpend It is prone to misinterpretation since location is fundamental to measurement (given the energy expended on transport). Perennial grain plants should be selected to expend less energy on competition and more on seed production. Many participants felt that they were expending ever greater efforts at work, but receiving ever decreased feedback in terms of their achievements. The idea of diminishing returns to effort expended upon the land became generally accepted in economics. Thus, the force distribution created by an activated motile flagellum will be affected by fluid viscoelasticity, as will the hydrodynamic power expended. The total amount of output produced is determined by the least effort expended by any member of the team, which creates a bottleneck. It is important to expend effort carefully and according to our own capabilities. During this period the communality and continuity of the community is probably expressed by the effort expended on the boundaries that surround the settlement. The computing power available per dollar expended is currently doubling each 18 months. Few empiric studies have directly measured the amount of time patients expend participating in healthcare interventions. Proposition 2 holds because as an organizational form becomes taken-for-granted as legitimate, entrepreneurs can expend more resources on organizing, and fewer resources on justification. Individuals and firms expend effort to find ways around specific commands of the law. Significant effort has been expended to overcome inherent complexity issues and make the prover efficient. Data on man-hours and animal-hours expended on land preparation, weeding and harvesting were collected. It is plausible enough to think that people who expend more effort than others deserve to do better. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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