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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

noun

• the act of spending money for goods or services
  Synonym:expenditure

双语例句

• Without known consumer requirements, it may be difficult to provide correct functionality and there is a danger of expending development and testing effort to produce operations that will not be used.
  如果不知道使用者需求，则可能很难提供正确的功能，因此就有可能存在将开发和测试工作浪费在提供将不会使用的操作上的风险。
• The more you practice expending your mental energy wisely, the more it will become a habit.
  在如何明智地投放精力方面练习得越多，就越能习惯成自然。
• To Analyse Simply on the Effects of Fuel Oil Taxation for Private Cars Expending
  浅析燃油税的征收对私人轿车消费的影响
• 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。
• 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 our cooperation in science and technology can be one of your greatest gifts to the future.
  在科技领域里扩大我们的合作可以成为你们献给未来的最大礼物。
• Useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly.
  无益的活动；毫无节制的消费行为。
• Of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor.
  关于农业；倾向于以消耗更多资金和劳动力小面积耕种的。
• 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。
• Not giving or expending freely; sparing.
  节俭的，节省的不随便施舍或花费的；节俭的。