expend是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 消费, 用尽，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This lad will be an honor to his people,' said Hawkeye, regarding the trail with as much admiration as a natural-ist would expend on the tusk of a mammoth or the rib of a mastodon; 'ay, and a thorn in the sides of the Hurons.
-- But the scout, after suffering the ardor of the lover to expend itself a little, found means to convince him of the folly of precipitation, in a manner that would require their coolest judgment and utmost fortitude.
-- There was no term of abuse known to the Huron vocabu-lary that the disappointed women did not lavishly expend on the successful stranger.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Master Kidderminster, grown too maturely turfy to be received by the wildest credulity as Cupid any more, had yielded to the invincible force of circumstances (and his beard), and, in the capacity of a man who made himself generally useful, presided on this occasion over the exchequer having also a drum in reserve, on which to expend his leisure moments and superfluous forces.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For she only had to hold herself back in sexual intercourse, and let him fin-ish and expend himself without herself coming to the crisis: and then she could prolong the connexion and achieve her orgasm and her crisis while he was merely her tool.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here Mr Pancks, apparently without the intention of hitting him, but merely to relieve his mind and expend his superfluous power in wholesome exercise, aimed a blow at the bumpy head, which the bumpy head ducked to avoid.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He certainly did not bet to win, and had only staked the twenty thousand pounds, half of his fortune, because he foresaw that he might have to expend the other half to carry out this difficult, not to say unattainable, project.
扩展阅读：暂无