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expend

/ɪkˈspɛnd/ 动词 C1

中文: 花费、消耗、耗尽

  1. To consume, exhaust (some resource). (transitive)

复数 expend · He/she/it expends · 过去式 expended · 过去分词 expended · -ing形式 expending

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动词形式

原形
expend
He/she/it
expends
过去式
expended
过去分词
expended
-ing形式
expending

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“Well,” pursued Caderousse, “can you without expending one sou, put me in the way of getting fifteen thousand francs?
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第835页 · C1
His ten dollars, discreetly expended, would enable the two to dine very well indeed.
《Six stories from The Four Million》,第29页 · C1
Two years ago a very large sum was smuggled through the Estimates and was expended in acquiring a monopoly of the invention.
《Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans》,第8页 · B2
There were in all six thousand piastres, but of these six thousand Albert had already expended three thousand.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第394页 · C1

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