expend
expend — 動詞
- expendpresent simple I / you / we / they
- expendshe / she / it
- expendedpast simple
- expending-ing form
1. to use a supply of money, time, energy, or another resource, especially when doi
花費；耗費
花費或消耗時間、金錢、精力等
to use a supply of money, time, energy, or another resource, especially when doing so reduces the amount available or requires a large quantity.
The team expended a huge amount of energy setting up the equipment before sunrise.
團隊在日出前架設設備耗費了大量精力。
expend + [quantity] + energy + [verb]-ing
Diya expended most of her savings on the flight to Seoul.
Diya 把大部分積蓄花在飛往首爾的機票上。
Building the new bridge will expend nearly two years and millions of dollars.
修建這座新橋將耗費近兩年的時間和數百萬美元。
Sirin did not want to expend any more effort on a plan that seemed unlikely to work.
Sirin 不想再在一個看似行不通的計畫上耗費心力。
Sven expended a great deal of patience teaching his grandmother to use the phone.
Sven 花了很多耐心教祖母使用手機。
- spend
more general and less formal; 'spend' works for everyday use of money or time, while 'expend' suggests a larger or more deliberate consumption
- use up
phrasal verb; emphasises the resource becoming fully consumed or exhausted
- consume
stronger implication that the resource is entirely used or destroyed in the process
- utilise
more technical; focuses on putting a resource to practical use rather than consuming it
文法句型
expend + [quantity] + [resource] + on/in + [activity]
expend + [resource] + [verb]-ing
用法筆記
More formal than spend or use. Commonly appears with quantity expressions such as a huge amount of, a great deal of, most of, or nearly all of. Takes a gerund complement to describe the activity the resource is spent on.