| 词汇 | expending |
| 释义 | expending present participle ofexpend 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 recycle spare 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 Examples of expendingexpending In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Many participants felt that they were expending ever greater efforts at work, but receiving ever decreased feedback in terms of their achievements. In addition, inertia seems to keep people in the plan rather than expending the effort to opt out. For example better vowel distinctiveness together with better consonant distinctiveness can make up for expending more effort. In analyzing these various practices for doing "answering," it may seem that we are expending a great deal of energy for a modest payoff. Furthermore, patrollers spend more time foraging and fly greater distances, probably expending more energy, than pupal-mating males. A computerised image processing allows the analysis of wave collision structures, expending concentric circles and rotating spirals in terms of wave velocity and front geometry. Since there is no workable mechanism to enforce compliance, there is little point in expending resources on auditing emissions. Intuitively, since there is no workable mechanism to enforce compliance, there is little point in expending resources on auditing emissions. In contrast, in the case of private ownership systems, each owner has to protect his own property by expending his resources. They must demonstrate their ability to furnish solutions which make it worth expending time, energy, and dedication. With noncompliant patients, expending more resources on reviewing therapy, offering counselling and aids may prevent expensive hospital care whilst improving the quality of patient care. These improvements should result in expending fewer resources on the design process while achieving better quality and more environmentally friendly products. Elderly people are often captured by the tyranny of survival, expending huge medical resources to extend life briefly at its temporal and qualitative margins. There are many examples of patients who feel that they have no chance of recovery, but for whom society is expending a great deal of resources (3;29). They could pay high wages to individual workers and expect that those individual workers would reciprocate by expending a great deal of effort in producing a good product. 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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