expend, spend
这两个词的意思相同,前者为较正式用词,强调所消耗的时间、金钱或精力等是巨大的。
cost，expend，spend，take，pay
这些动词都含“花费”之意。
cost指花费时间、金钱、劳力等。其主语是物，而不能由人充当，也不用被动形式。
expend较正式用词，通常指为某一专门目的而花费大量金钱、时间或精力。
spend普通用词，与cost基本同义，但主语必须是人。
take普通用词，指需要占用空间、时间或精力等，其主语可以是人，也可以是一件事情。
pay“付款、给……报酬”，它可作及物动词也可作不及物动词。pay常用于以下几种句型：①Sb．pay（s）sb．money意为“某人付款给另一个人或某人给另一个人多少报酬”。
The enemy had expended all their ammunition.
敌人已耗尽所有的弹药.
——《简明英汉词典》
They have expended all their ammunition.
他们把弹药用光了.
——《现代英汉综合大词典》
He expended all his strength in trying to climb out.
他用尽全力试图爬出来.
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She expended all her efforts on the care of home and children.
她把所有精力都花在料理家务和照顾孩子上。
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Much effort has been expended to improve the standard of the forging furnace.
我们也花费了很大力量用以改进锻炉标准.
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One or two nights she found herself too tired to walk home , and expended car fare.
有一两个晚上下班时,她实在累得走不动了, 只好花钱搭车回家.
英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
The factory expended all its capital on equipment.
该厂将所有的资金用于设备.
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They had already expended six thousand dollars in advertisement.
在广告上,他们已花费了6000美元.
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They expended large sums of money in maintaining this beach.
他们花去大笔的钱维护这个海滩.
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The whole of a man's income is expended in the purchase of services and of commodities.
个人之全部所得,乃是用来购买劳役和商品的.
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Every bit of mechanical energy expended reappears as heat.
所消耗的每一点机械能都再现为热能.
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He lived high and expended largely.
他生活讲究,花费很大.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
Not real champagne, but plenty real enough for the amount of imagination expended on it.
也不是真有香槟, 而是运用了充分的想像力弄假成真了.
英汉文学 - 三万元遗产
He expended much time in reading.
他花费许多工夫读书.
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They had expended all their captial on equipment.
他们将所有资本用于设备.
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