Expend
[ɪk'spend;ek-] or [ɪk'spɛnd]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
(v. i.) To be laid out, used, or consumed.
(v. i.) To pay out or disburse money.
校對:威拉德
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Disburse, spend, lay out.[2]. Use, employ.[3]. Exhaust, consume, waste, dissipate.
整理:罗德尼
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Spend, disburse, lay_out, waste, consume, use
ANT:Save, husband, economize
編輯:卡蒂
解釋/意思:
v.t. to lay out: to employ or consume in any way: to spend.—ns. Expend′iture act of expending or laying out: that which is expended: the process of using up: money spent; Expense′ (Shak.) expenditure: outlay: cost: (pl.) the cost of a lawsuit (Scots law).—adj. Expens′ive causing or requiring much expense: extravagant.—adv. Expens′ively.—n. Expens′iveness.—Be at the expense of to pay the cost of.
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例句/造句/用法:
- All that he has of certainty will be expended when he is fully equipped. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In this case, chemical action is expended in heat rather than in the production of electricity and the liquid becomes hot. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The money was not paid to them directly, but was expended judiciously and for their benefit. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He started a lawsuit at once to recover the sums he had expended, and judgment was given against Gutenberg, commanding that he should pay what he had borrowed, together with interest. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- This of itself was a subject of much importance and a vast amount of research and labor was expended upon it. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Are you certain that you can afford to part with so much money, and that it is right that it should be so expended? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The original estimate for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was ￡300,000, but the amount expended on the works at the time of opening was nearly ￡800,000. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- One night I was sitting in the chimney corner with my slate, expending great efforts on the production of a letter to Joe. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- This is because water, in flowing from place to place, expends force in overcoming the friction of the pipes and the resistance of the air. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
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