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1·If you give up exercise, your muscles shrink and fat increases. By the same token, if you expend more energy you will lose fat.

如果你放弃锻炼，肌肉就会萎缩，脂肪会增多。同样地，如果你消耗较多的体能，你就会减掉脂肪。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Growth, reproduction, and daily metabolism all require an organism to expend energy.

生长、繁殖和日常的新陈代谢都需要有机体来消耗能量。

3·Extreme athletes expend lots of energy breaking down and repairing and building muscles.

极限运动员消耗大量能量来分解、修复和塑造肌肉。

4·Since 1914, scientists have known that birds flying in formation—a V-shape—expend less energy.

自1914年以来，科学家们已经知道，以V字形队形飞行的鸟类消耗的能量更少。

5·This is because of all the energy they expend to make the equipment to catch animals—the enzymes, the pumps, and so on.

这是因为他们为制造捕获动物的设备而花费的所有能量——酶、泵等。

6·Why does their behavior indicate more of a concern with how much energy they expend than with being exposed to predators?

为什么它们的行为表明它们更关心的是消耗多少能量而不是担心暴露在捕食者面前呢？

7·They do not want to expend energy in what, to them, is a lost cause.

他们不想把精力投到他们认为注定不会成功的事中去。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

8·Children expend a lot of energy and may need more high-energy food than adults.

孩子们耗能多，可能比成人需要更多高能量的食物。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

9·I think it is safe to say that very few students expend the effort to do quality work in school.

我认为有把握这么说，几乎没有学生能在学校用心读书。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

10·For example, birds may expend more of their reserves on thermoregulation if they spend the night exposed to the wind on a song post than if they are in a sheltered roost site.

例如，与在有遮挡的栖息地的鸟类相比，如果鸟类在风中露宿一晚，它们可能会更多地利用体温调节。

消耗

1·If you give up exercise, your muscles shrink and fat increases. By the same token, if you expend more energy you will lose fat.

如果你放弃锻炼，肌肉就会萎缩，脂肪会增多。同样地，如果你消耗较多的体能，你就会减掉脂肪。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Growth, reproduction, and daily metabolism all require an organism to expend energy.

生长、繁殖和日常的新陈代谢都需要有机体来消耗能量。

3·Extreme athletes expend lots of energy breaking down and repairing and building muscles.

极限运动员消耗大量能量来分解、修复和塑造肌肉。

4·Since 1914, scientists have known that birds flying in formation—a V-shape—expend less energy.

自1914年以来，科学家们已经知道，以V字形队形飞行的鸟类消耗的能量更少。

5·Why does their behavior indicate more of a concern with how much energy they expend than with being exposed to predators?

为什么它们的行为表明它们更关心的是消耗多少能量而不是担心暴露在捕食者面前呢？

花费

1·It has been said that most people expend more effort researching their next vacation than they do planning their future.

众所周知，大部分人花费更多精力努力去考虑他们下一次的度假，而不是规划他们的未来。

2·More often than not the energy they expend on seeming impressive makes their actual performance worse.

通常他们花费在着装上的精力使得他们的工作更加糟糕。

3·Put slightly differently, hexagonal cells allow bees to focus on producing honey and expend the least amount of energy making wax.

或者稍微换种说法，六边形的空间使蜜蜂能够把精力放到产蜜上，并且花费最少能量制蜡。

4·Likewise, teams often expend inordinate amounts of time maintaining and fussing over their script-driven build systems.

同样，团队经常花费过多的时间来维护并过分小心地对待他们的脚本驱动的构建系统。

5·Defensive pessimists expect the worst and expend lots of energy mentally rehearsing how things might go wrong.

防御性悲观主义者会把事情往最坏的地方想，并且他们会花费很多精力想象事情会怎样变得糟糕起来。

耗费

1·As obscure as the middle class definition is, it is most fascinating to me how we Americans expend so much energy trying to maintain the appearance of wealth.

中产阶级的定义是这么模糊，最令我好奇的是我们美国人怎样耗费如此多的精力努力维持富裕的表象。

2·To calculate this kind of estimate accuracy, teams would have to expend effort to capture detailed actual hours, a practice not advocated by any Agile approach I've seen.

要计算这样的估算准确率，团队必须要耗费精力获得详细的“实际”工作小时数，我可从没有见过哪个敏捷实践倡议说要这样做。

3·Why would individuals expend time and energy in activities that fail to increase reproductive success?

个体为什么要耗费时间和精力，去从事无法提高种群繁殖率的事情？

4·The psychic rogue can expend his psionic focus to use this ability as a move action.

灵能游荡者可以耗费他的灵能聚焦以一个移动动作使用这项能力。

5·Bowknot multi-layer type a skirt, side zipper, black satin lining, multilayer cascade skirt is placed, expend fabrics.

蝴蝶结多层a型半裙，侧拉链，黑色缎面衬里，多层层叠的裙摆，耗费面料。

花

1·Neither entity wanted to expend the time or money to develop their own standard.

没有经济实体想要花时间或金钱来开发它们自己的标准。

2·Try to balance activities for all of your kids — and yourself: It hardly seems fair to expend time and energy carting one kid to activities, leaving little time for another.

平衡好孩子们的和你自己的活动时间： 花时间和精力送孩子参加活动，几乎为自己剩不下做别的事情的时间，这看起来似乎很不公平。

3·Don't expend all your energy on such a useless job.

不要把你的精力全花在这无益的工作上。

4·Why expend time and energy in activities that fail to increase reproductive success?

为什么花时间和精力去做不能提高繁殖率的事情？

5·You don't need to expend that much time in watching TV.

你没必要花那么多时间在看电视上。