expense

n. 损失，代价；消费；开支

vt. 向…收取费用

vi. 被花掉

中文词源

expense 花费

来自expend, 花费。

expense (n.): also formerly expence, late 14c., "action of spending or giving away, a laying out or expending," also "funds provided for expenses, expense money; damage or loss from any cause," from Anglo-French expense, Old French espense "money provided for expenses," from Late Latin expensa "disbursement, outlay, expense," noun use of neuter plural past participle of Latin expendere "to weigh out money, to pay down" (see expend).

Latin spensa also yielded Medieval Latin spe(n)sa, the sense of which specialized to "outlay for provisions," then "provisions, food" before it was borrowed into Old High German as spisa and became the root of German Speise "food," now mostly meaning prepared food, and speisen "to eat." Expense account is from 1872.
expense (v.): 1909, from expense (n.). Related: Expensed; expensing.

2. I'll try to save him the expense of a flight from Perth.: 我会设法替他省下要从珀斯飞来的机票费用。

3. He put Elizabeth's motel bill and airfare on his expense account.: 他将伊丽莎白住汽车旅馆的费用和机票费用记在他的报销账目中。

4. It exposes the fallacy of short-term industrial gain at long-term environmental expense.: 这暴露了以长久的环境破坏为代价换取短期工业利益的错误。

5. The orchestra has more discipline now, but at the expense of spirit.: 那个管弦乐团现在更有纪律性了，却丧失了灵魂。